Miniature fruit form
- Museum number:
- 3-26859f
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2103026859f
- Alternate number:
- LOP-10 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2897
- Description:
- One of a set of fruit forms; made of gourds; pieces lacquered red, green-yellow, with some brush-work and painted designs; (f) is leaf-shaped piece with white lower with red center and dark green leaves over green lacquer; yellow band around inside edge. The leaf-shaped piece is a bateita (little platter) made of half of the seed pod of Pithecoctenium. Pieces are prepared for assembly in same fashion as 3-26858. These fruit forms are usually lacquered in the Nahua village of Temalacingo, up the mountain from Olinala. They are sold to people of Olinala, for assembly and resale. See Artes de Mexico, No. 153, (Ano XIX) 1972; p. 100.
- Donor:
- Katharine D. Jenkins and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Olinalá, Guerrero, Mexico
- Collector:
- Katharine D. Jenkins
- Collection date:
- September 1966
- Taxon:
- Pithecoctenium
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Miniature (size attribute)
- Function:
- 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
- Accession date:
- January 17, 1973
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area