Panda Hat: "La Pandita"
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: HAT MOLDED OF PAPIER-MACHE WITH PAPER FIGURE STANDING (ON ONE FOOT) ON THE TOP. HAT RESEMBLES A MILITARY STYLE, IS RED, WHITE AND GREEN. PANDA IS BLACK AND WHITE. INTERIOR IS WHITE. OVERALL (EXCLUDING INTERIOR) IS COATED WITH A VARNISH.
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. ACCESSION FILE INDICATES THE PANDA HAT WAS MADE FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1982.
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: E422902-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 35 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 18 cm