Candle
- Museum number:
- 3-23160
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21030023160
- Alternate number:
- 79b (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2248
- Description:
- Candle; mold made with single ply cotton wick; blue paraffin; L 16 cm; base diameter 1.5 cm. See 25-3500-01. See field notes in acc. envelope
- Donor:
- Susan Weikel Palmer and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Campeche (city), Campeche, Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Mexico, Campeche, Campeche
- Collector:
- Susan Weikel Palmer
- Collection date:
- October 31, 1966
- Materials:
- Paraffin (wax)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Candles
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1967
- Context of use:
- Burned on household altars and at graves of dead relatives during Days of the Dead (Oct 31 - Nov 2)
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Dimensions:
- diameter 1.5 centimeters and length 16 centimeters
- Comment:
- H-17-9
- Legacy documentation:
-