Figurine
- Museum number:
- 3-30936
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030030936
- Alternate number:
- JP-256 (previous number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4777
- Description:
- FIGURINE: Ceramic figurine of a sitting animal (kangaroo?) plying a musical instrument. Clay is natural with no slip or glaze. Oval body with applied head, legs tail and “arms”. A stick-like object is held in the proper right hand; a flattened, oval object in the proper left. “Mexico” is stamped in blue ink on the base of the animal’s body. Blanco figure.
- Donor:
- John Paul
- Collection place:
- Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Collector:
- John Paul
- Materials:
- Ceramic (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Figurines
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- February 24, 2011
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Images:
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