Color print

Museum number:

13-6746

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

13-5881

Accession number:

Acc.4724

Description:

color photographic print; matted "The arrival of fireworks (La Obra) at La Parroquia, the Parish church; February 14, 1977." [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:

February 14, 1977

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 35.4 centimeters, matted— height 50.7 centimeters, matted— width 40.7 centimeters, and photo— width 27.8 centimeters

Comment:

The festival of 1945: The powder for rockets has been purchased by the families of Ojo de Agua [an adjacent Tarascan community], and after this early breakfast it is carried to the town hall [more recently, to the church], each band with its followers making many detours through the streets. Here the powder, in the presence of all, is divided, and half sent with one band to the priest, for Church uses, and half remaining in the town hall, for civil use. During the day it will be made into the rockets which are indispensable in any fiesta (1948).