Box

Museum number:
3-29208
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029208
Accession number:
Acc.3818
Description:
Box, wood with lacquered decoration; white ground, varicolored floral design on top metal hinges connect cover to box; rectangle 12 cm wide, 8.3 cm deep. "Y128687"engraved on underside. More likely painted rather than lacquered. Trinket box. "Leopoldo Slvum G. Uruapan, Mich" stamped on inside rim of box.
Donor:
Virginia Socolofsky
Collection place:
Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
Collector:
Virginia Socolofsky
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 3-29208, described as Box, wood with lacquered decoration; white ground, varicolored floral design on top metal hinges connect cover to box; rectangle 12 cm wide, 8.3 cm deep. "Y128687"engraved on underside. More likely painted rather than lacquered. Trinket box. "Leopoldo Slvum G. Uruapan, Mich" stamped on inside rim of box.

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