Toys

Museum number:
3-29039
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029039
Accession number:
Acc.3707
Description:
Toy, skeleton (Day of the Dead). Made of tin, stamped out, painted white and green, a loop at top for suspension. Length 15.0 cm.
Donor:
Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt
Collection place:
Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, unspecified
Collector:
Katharine D. Jenkins
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Tin (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
February 24, 1982
Context of use:
Day of the Dead
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters
Comment:
H-19-6
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Toys, accession number 3-29039, described as Toy, skeleton (Day of the Dead). Made of tin, stamped out, painted white and green, a loop at top for suspension. Length 15.0 cm.

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