Paper Mache Figure: Skeleton On Horse
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: Toy Skeleton (calavera). From card: "Paper mache skeleton, white with black lines & red eyes sitting astride a white horse with painted black spots & red blanket. Blue synthetic 'fur' attached as mane and tail. Horse attached to rectangular cardboard base. Rattles when shaken. Decoration for Mexican Day of the Dead. Loaned to Renwick 12/17/(19)81, returned 8/1983."
label: Notes
content: ONE OF ELEVEN DECORATIONS MADE FOR MEXICAN CELEBRATION OF "DAY OF THE DEAD", (ALL SOUL'S & ALL SAINTS' DAY, NOV. 2). PURCHASED IN MEXICO CITY, NOV. 1, 1979 BY RAQUEL B. CEJA; SPECIFICALLY ASSEMBLED FOR RENWICK'S CELEBRATION EXHIBIT (1981). ITEMS MADE FOR SALE AS DECORATIONS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Oct 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mexico City, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Mexican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 345735
label: USNM Number
content: E421289-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure