figurine;
model group
- Museum number
- Am1990,08.173.p
- Description
-
Figurine (part of a set of healing figurines); made of pottery; lightly fired; white slip; in the form of bowl; circular with flat bottom, almost vertical sides; painted yellow with green and orange accents. Used in Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1980s
- Dimensions
-
Diameter: 4.50 centimetres
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Height: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A healer would commission a set of these pottery figurines from a pottery maker, and would then use the figurines during healing ceremonies to cure illness, which was believed to have been caused by "bad air".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1991, London, Museum of Mankind, 'The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead'
- Associated events
- Used at: Day of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1990
- Acquisition notes
- Cost for all 33 (a-gg).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1990,08.173.p