Candy

Museum number:
3-29041a-j
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210329041a@2dj
Accession number:
Acc.3707
Description:
Candy, zoomorphic (Day of the Dead). Bird, animal and fish forms made of sugar paste with painted features, each piece glued to a small piece of stiff paper. Birds and anumal have shredded tissue paper decoration on backs. A-B) fish, length 5.5 cm; C) animal, one ear broken and glued, Length 3.5 cm, Ht. 3.7 cm; D-J) birds, Length 4.0 cm, Ht. 4.0 cm
Donor:
Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt
Collection place:
Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
Collector:
Katharine D. Jenkins
Collection date:
1956
Materials:
Paint (coating) and Paper (fiber product)
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:
February 24, 1982
Context of use:
Day of the Dead
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
H-9-10
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Candy, accession number 3-29041a-j, described as Candy, zoomorphic (Day of the Dead). Bird, animal and fish forms made of sugar paste with painted features, each piece glued to a small piece of stiff paper. Birds and anumal have shredded tissue paper decoration on backs. A-B) fish, length 5.5 cm; C) animal, one ear broken and glued, Length 3.5 cm, Ht. 3.7 cm; D-J) birds, Length 4.0 cm, Ht. 4.0 cm

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