Toy

Museum number:
3-29028
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3707
Description:
Toy, coffin (Day of the Dead). Model of a coffin made of sugar paste, colored blue with inscriptions in pink, white feet, one broken. Ht. 7.0 cm, Length 14.0 cm
Donor:
Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt
Collection place:
Mexico City, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico, Mexico, D.F.
Collector:
Katharine D. Jenkins
Collection date:
1956
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Toys (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
Context of use:
Day of the Dead
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 14 centimeters and height 7 centimeters
Comment:
H-9-7
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Toy, accession number 3-29028, described as Toy, coffin (Day of the Dead). Model of a coffin made of sugar paste, colored blue with inscriptions in pink, white feet, one broken. Ht. 7.0 cm, Length 14.0 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Toy, accession number 3-29028, described as Toy, coffin (Day of the Dead). Model of a coffin made of sugar paste, colored blue with inscriptions in pink, white feet, one broken. Ht. 7.0 cm, Length 14.0 cm

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