Modeled Sugar Candy Coffin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: Candy Coffin (tumbita). From card: "Hollow coffin fashioned from white sugar candy. Decorated with yellow icing, plus pink, blue & green icing flowers. Paper cross at head, printed paper angel's head attached to flowers, and paper name tag ('Abel') attached to foot. Decoration for Mexican Day of the Dead. Loaned to Renwick 12/17/(19)81, returned 8/1983. Illus.: p. 138, Pl. 182a, Celebrations catalogue, Smithsonian Press, 1982."
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: E421287-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Candy Coffin