Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
date: label: Date made
content: 1861-12-10-1941-12-14
name: label: maker
content: Rivera Aviles, Genaro
label: maker
content: Rivera Aviles, Genaro
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden figure of <i>La Virgen de la Candelaria</i> was made by Genaro Rivera in the town of Morovis in the early 1900s. This saint is especially popular in Puerto Rican cultural traditions and folk religion. Many of the first settlers to Puerto Rico came originally from the Canary Islands, bringing with them their patron saint, the <i>Virgen de la Candelaria</i>, the Virgin of Candlemas.
label: Description (Spanish)
content: Esta figura de madera de la Virgen de la Candelaria fue tallada por Genaro Rivera en el pueblo de Morovis al comienzo del siglo XX. Este es un santo particularmente popular dentro de la tradición cultural y religiosa puertorriqueña. La Virgen de la Candelaria era el santo patrono de muchos de los primeros colonos, oriundos de las Islas Canarias, que emigraron a Puerto Rico.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Puerto Rico: Morovis, Morovis
title: label: Title
content: Our Lady of Candlemas
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Vidal
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Teodoro Vidal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0097.0544
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0097.0544
label: accession number
content: 1997.0097
objectType: label: Object Name
content: santo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: handmade (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: wood; paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.4 cm x 13 cm x 6.9 cm; 9 5/8 in x 5 1/8 in x 2 11/16 in