Modeled Sugar Candy Skull "Calavera de Azúcar"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Candy Skull (calavera). Hollow skull, molded of white sugar candy, decorated with pink, blue, yellow, green, and white icing, both floral and zigzag designs. Hollows of eyes filled in with purple foil, gold foil medallion on top of head. Length of blue foil across forehead, on which purchaser may have written the name of the person to whom it will be given as a gift. Damaged on sides by mice prior to accessioning. Illus.: p. 138, pl. 182b, Celebrations catalogue, Smithsonian Press, 1982. During Day of the Dead celebrations, families often place the names of deceased relatives on candy ornaments. ..." Continued, see card.
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: E421284-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Candy Skull