Crepe paper flowers
- Museum number:
- 3-23157
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030023157
- Alternate number:
- 78b (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2248
- Description:
- Crepe paper flowers (2 yellow, 1 white, 2 blue, 1 pink, 2 red); edged with silver glitter; attached with wires to wood stem; stem and wire wrapped with green crepe paper; L 28.2 cm. See 25-3500-01. See field notes in acc. envelope
- Donor:
- Susan Weikel Palmer and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Campeche (city), Campeche, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Campeche, Campeche
- Collector:
- Susan Weikel Palmer
- Collection date:
- October 31, 1966
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber product) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1967
- Context of use:
- Placed on household alters and at graves of dead relatives during Days of the Dean (Oct 31 - Nov 2)
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- length 28.2 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-