Paper doll
- Museum number:
- 3-29150c
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm2103029150c
- Accession number:
- Acc.3707
- Description:
- Paper dolls. Various shades of bark paper, cut into zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures used in sorcery; some are single sheets, some double sheets stitched together with white thread. 16.0 cm x 10.5 cm. through 28.0 cm x 9.0 cm.
- Donor:
- Edgar C. Altermatt, Katharine D. Jenkins, and Mrs. Edgar C. Altermatt
- Collection place:
- San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico
- Collector:
- Katharine D. Jenkins
- Materials:
- Bark (plant material) and Paper (fiber product)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Dolls (figurines)
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- February 24, 1982
- Context of use:
- Collector states that figures wearing shoes are identified as bad spirits (mestizo) and figures with no shoes are identified as good spirits (Indian).
- Department:
- Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
- Comment:
- j-only; H-12-5
- Legacy documentation:
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