Color print

Museum number:

13-6738

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

13-5873

Accession number:

Acc.4724

Description:

color photographic print; matted "Dolores (Lola) Pichu (left) and her younger sister Virginia Pichu (right), daughters of Micaela González and her first husband, Pedro Pichu; Santiago fiesta, July 26, 1959." [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:

July 26, 1959

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 27.8 centimeters, photo— height 35.5 centimeters, matted— height 50.8 centimeters, and matted— width 40.7 centimeters

Comment:

The eldest sister-even if older than the oldest brother-ranks below him, but otherwise she has considerable authority over younger siblings, and especially younger sisters. She is a mother surrogate and, in past years at least, when both parents were away selling pottery, she would be in effective charge of a household of younger children. . . . [In some instances], adult and married siblings retain a strong liking for each other. . . . So the picture is very much that of other societies; siblings who like each other continue to be good friends and to enjoy each other's company. Those who do not, go their various ways (1967).