Puppet
- Museum number:
- 3-29026d
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2103029026d
- Accession number:
- Acc.3707
- Description:
- Puppets. Figures representing characted of play with heads, hands and feet made of clay, connected by the fabric of the costumes, trimmed with feathers and gold foil paper, stiff wire extending from tops of heads. Lengths 19.0 cm through 22.0 cm. Cavalier.
- Donor:
- Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt
- Collection place:
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Mexico D.F., Mexico City
- Collector:
- Katharine D. Jenkins
- Collection date:
- 1956
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Puppets (recreational artifacts)
- 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
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area