Toy

Museum number:
3-29034
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030029034
Accession number:
Acc.3707
Description:
Toy, funeral procession (Day of the Dead). Nine figures with coffin made of paper with dried chick-peas for heads, representing an ecclesiastical funeral procession; mounted on a scissor arrangement of flat sticks so that procession can be made to move. Figures Ht. approx. 7.0 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., Mexico City
Collector:
Katharine D. Jenkins
Materials:
Paper (fiber product) and Wood (plant material)
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:
height 7 centimeters
Comment:
H-9-6
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Toy, accession number 3-29034, described as Toy, funeral procession (Day of the Dead). Nine figures with coffin made of paper with dried chick-peas for heads, representing an ecclesiastical funeral procession; mounted on a scissor arrangement of flat sticks so that procession can be made to move. Figures Ht. approx. 7.0 cm
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Toy, accession number 3-29034, described as Toy, funeral procession (Day of the Dead). Nine figures with coffin made of paper with dried chick-peas for heads, representing an ecclesiastical funeral procession; mounted on a scissor arrangement of flat sticks so that procession can be made to move. Figures Ht. approx. 7.0 cm

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