bell set, earthenware, black, burnished; one-piece, cruciform; four bell bodies joined at center; hole in center probably was for axle; ceramic clapper suspended on purple thread in each bell; width ca 15.0 cm X height ca 7.5 cm. Probable original religious use.
Donor:
George M. Foster
Collection place:
San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Collector:
George M. Foster and Mary LeCron Foster
Collection date:
Summer 1958
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bells (idiophones) and Earthenware
Accession date:
1958
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Loans:
S1974-1975 #4: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (July 19, 1974–February 7, 1975) and S1974-1975 #67: Civic Arts Center (Walnut Creek) (February 5, 1975–May 7, 1975)