Incense burner

Museum number:
3-26932
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030026932
Accession number:
Acc.2978
Description:
incense burner; hand-modeled ceramic; globular top with excised triangles around side; annular pedestal base; burning copal incense; coals are put in burner and hardened copal placed on coals; burned to saints and ancestors on All Souls Day; also used in fields when propitiating deities of forest. Used by both men and women, made by men.
Donor:
Susan Weikel Palmer
Collection place:
Yucatán, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Yucatan
Collector:
Susan Weikel Palmer
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Incense burners
Accession date:
1973
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
H-18-5
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Incense burner, accession number 3-26932, described as incense burner; hand-modeled ceramic; globular top with excised triangles around side; annular pedestal base; burning copal incense; coals are put in burner and hardened copal placed on coals; burned to saints and ancestors on All Souls Day; also used in fields when propitiating deities of forest. Used by both men and women, made by men.

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