Papier-Mache Skull: "Craneo Campesino"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jul 1986
label: Collection Date
content: Nov. 1982
name: label: Collector
content: Ms. Judith Bronowski
label: Donor Name
content: Ms. Judith Bronowski
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE SKULL MOLDED OF PAPIER-MACHE, WITH SMALLER FIGURES ATTACHED TO TOP: SCORPION, YUCCA PLANT, RED AND BLUE BIRD WITH YELLOW HEAD, CACTUS [possibly Opuntia/prickly pear cactus], AND A SNAKE. PAINTED WHITE WITH OVERLAYING FLORAL DESIGNS IN MANY COLORS.
label: Notes
content: ONE OF SIX PAPIER MACHE' FIGURES MADE FOR THE SMITHSONIAN IN 1982 BY THE MEXICAN CRAFTSMAN PEDRO LINARES AND HIS SON MIGUEL. EXPANDING ON THE TRADITIONAL ART OF PAPIER MACHE' SCULPTURE LEARNED FROM HIS FATHER, MR. LINARES CREATED FANCIFUL SKELETON FIGURES FOR "ALL SOULS DAY" (DAY OF THE DEAD) FESTIVAL, AND DRAGON/MONSTER FIGURES REMEMBERED FROM FEVERISH DREAMS OCCURING DURING AN EARLY CHILDHOOD ILLNESS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mexico City, Federal District, 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: 355466
label: USNM Number
content: E422901-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 37 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 31 cm