TONALA NATIVITY SCENE: Christ child. Figure of child with arms outstretched. Hair and facial features clearly delineated. The child wears a tan garment with an amber, gray, black and white circular motif on the chest and a vertical row of serpentine decoration below. There are floral motifs on both sides.
Donor:
John Paul
Collection place:
Tonala, Jalisco state, Mexico
Collector:
John Paul
Person depicted:
Jesus Christ (founder of Christianity) and Mary (mother of Jesus)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Nativity figures
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies