JP-759 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4777
Description:
TEODORA BLANCO CERAMIC FIGURE: Figure of a woman wearing a long dress and apron. Apron and bodice are decorated with applied flowers & leaves. She wears drop earrings, and a bead necklace. She has long braids and an applied flower on her head topped with a small hat w/ a draping hat band. She holds a turtle in her 2 hands. “Flowers, beads, earrings and hat ribbon are painted with burnt-orange paint. "7” is written in ink on the inside of her skirt. “T.B.” is inscribed inside the skirt. “Mexico” is stamped inside the skirt. H=18.5cm; W=8.5cm; L=9.6cm. JP-759
Donor:
John Paul
Collection place:
Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Mixtec
Collector:
John Paul
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions