Modeled Sugar Candy Skeleton Figures: Male, Female
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Two Seated Candy Skeletons (calaveras). Scene of male & female skeletons molded from white sugar candy. Woman with pink hair and cloth skirt, man with yellow hat. Both sitting, attached to cardboard base. Both holding tiny ceramic dishes, with larger one between them, filled with candy 'food'. Paper sign attached to wooden stick behind them saying 'te quero, te quero y a quen no le gusta' (I love you, I love you but what does it matter?). Decoration for Mexican Day of the Dead. Loaned to Renwick 12/17/(19)81, returned 8/1983." Caption for the Renwick exhibit catalogue, taped to back of the catalogue card, translates the Spanish from the paper sign and adds a comment: (Sign says) "'I love you, I love you, but you couldn't care less,' emphasizing the ironic attitude toward death often expressed during All Souls' Day."
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: E421285-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Candy Figure