Bark Paper Dolls, "Munecos"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Jan 1987
label: Collection Date
content: 1968 to 1969
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Robert Kaupp
label: Collector
content: Kathleen K. Kaupp
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Robert Kaupp
notes: label: Notes
content: PART OF A SET OF TWENTY DOLLS USED IN CURING CEREMONY (LIMPIA) BY AN OTOMI SHAMAN ("NEI" IN OTOMI, "BRUJO" IN SPANISH). THESE FIGURES ARE REPRESENTATIONS OF "PAJARITO DE AGUILA" (LITTLE BIRD OF THE EAGLE). THE FOLLOWING IS HOW HE IS DESCRIBED BY ALFONSO GARCIA, THE BRUJO OF SAN PABLITO: "HE IS THE BIRD OF THE GOD OF THE MOUNTAINS, MORE POWERFUL THAN HIS MESSENGER (PAJARITO DE ESTRELLAS). WHEN SOMEONE IS SICK, THIS BIRD FLIES AROUND AND BRINGS REPORTS TO HIS GOD. HE TAKES THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING PERSON TO THE GOD OF THE MOUNTAIN TO SAY THAT THERE IS SOMEONE HERE ALIVE TO WHOM EVIL CAN BE BROUGHT. THE BIRD THEN MAKES THE PERSON IN SAN PABLITO VOMIT. AN OFFERING IS MADE TO THE GOD OF THE MOUNTAIN CONSISTING OF FOUR EGGS AND TORTILLAS AND THE DOLLS OF THE LION. THE LION SUCKS THE EGGS ON THE ALTAR ALONG WITH THE PAJARITO DE AGUILA WHICH GUARDS THE ALTAR. FOUR CANDLES ONTHE ALTAR AWAIT THE COMING OF OTHER ANIMAL SPIRTS TO EAT. UNMOUNTED DOLL OF SET USED BY BRUJO. MOUNTED DOLL OF SET MADE FOR SALE TO OUTSIDERS.
label: Notes
content: Made of amate bark paper, made from tree bark, often from wild fig/Ficus trees.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Otomi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 359391
label: USNM Number
content: E423420-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Unmounted Doll
content: 25.5 cm
label: Unknown - Unmounted Doll
content: 16.5 cm
label: Unknown - Mounted Doll
content: 34 cm
label: Unknown - Mounted Doll
content: 26 cm