Color print
- Museum number:
- 13-6737
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21130006737
- Alternate number:
- 13-5872
- Accession number:
- Acc.4724
- Description:
- color photographic print; matted "The new second floor on Micaela González's house; Mary Foster on the balcony; July 29, 1969." [matted at PAHMA for exhibition]
- Donor:
- George M. Foster
- Collection place:
- Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Michoacan, Tzintzuntzan
- Collector:
- George M. Foster
- Collection date:
- July 29, 1969
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber product)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Color prints (photographs)
- Accession date:
- October 11, 2001
- Department:
- Still and motion photography
- Dimensions:
- photo— height 35 centimeters, matted— height 50.6 centimeters, matted— width 40.6 centimeters, and photo— width 27.8 centimeters
- Comment:
- The arrangement has more than met the expectations of all parties and since 1959 we have lived in Doña Micaela's home. With each succeeding year, we found ourselves accumulating more and more field equipment, file boxes, local arts and crafts, and clothing so that by 1970 we had outgrown our small room. Simultaneously, Micaela-who was one of the first villagers to abandon the traditional noncompetitive stance-had reached the point where, to keep up with two or three other villagers, she felt compelled to build a second story on her home. Here again our interest coincided with hers: We designed and paid for a second story apartment which we have furnished to our taste and where we keep sufficient field equipment and clothing so that we can arrive with no more than a brief case and live in great comfort. We have no equity in this property; when we no longer need it, it reverts to the family. Meanwhile we have comfortable and attractive quarters, loving care from the family members while we are in residence and superb informants within hailing distance (1979).