JP-746 (previous number (collector's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4777
Description:
TEODORA BLANCO CERAMIC FIGURE: Figure of a woman wearing a long dress with short sleeve, decorated on each hip with an applied flower, drop earrings, and a bead necklace. She has a head-wrap on her head and applied & incised features. She holds a bowl decorated with a pig and flower. The pig is playing an unidentified instrument. At her feet are 3pots decorated with pigs also playing musical instruments. “T.B.” is incised inside her skirt and the “74” is written in ink. H=17.0cm; W=14.5cm; L=11.7cm JP-746
Donor:
John Paul
Collection place:
Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Mixtec
Collector:
John Paul
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines and Women (female humans)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions