Color print

Museum number:

13-6757

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

13-5892

Accession number:

Acc.4724

Description:

color photographic print; matted "Little Old Man Dance (Los Viejitos); Tzintzuntzan, Mexico; November 1-2, 1977." [matted at PAHMA for exhibition]

Donor:

George M. Foster

Collection place:

Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

Mexico, Michoacan, Tzintzuntzan

Collector:

George M. Foster

Collection date:

November 1-2, 1977

Materials:

Paper (fiber product)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Color prints (photographs)

Accession date:

October 11, 2001

Department:

Still and motion photography

Dimensions:

photo— width 27.9 centimeters, photo— height 35.6 centimeters, matted— height 50.8 centimeters, and matted— width 40.7 centimeters

Comment:

This dance [the viejito dance] of the 'little old men' is the only really typical and distinctive dance of the Tarascan area, and one of the most amusing of all Mexcio (1948).