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Thinking Skeleton
Thinking Skeleton
Thinking Skeleton
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Thinking Skeleton

NameSculpture, ceramic
Maker Demetrio Garcia Aguilar
Dateca. 2000
Place madeOcotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
Mediumceramic
DimensionsOverall: 14 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (36.83 x 16.51 cm)
Credit LineIFAF Collection. Gift of Diane and Sandy Besser
Object numberFA.2006.55.1
DescriptionSkeleton sitting on a skull with elbows on knees, head cradled in hands.
Skeleton musician
Artist unrecorded
c. 1956
Male and female puppets
José Celestino da Silva
1980s - 1990s
FIGURE GROUP
Aguilar Family
c. 1960
Christ
R. Garcia
c. 1920
Angel
Aguilar Family
c. 1960
Angel Candlestick
Aguilar Family
c. 1960
Female Figure
Aguilar Family
c. 1960
Woman Holding Flowers
Irene Aguilar
2010
Baptism, by the Aguilar family, ca. 1960. Painted earthenware. Ocotlan de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexi…
Aguilar Family
c. 1960