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Helmets with Animals and People
Helmets with Animals and People
Helmets with Animals and People
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Helmets with Animals and People

NameHat or Helmet
Artist Artist Not Recorded
DateCA 1960, STAFF
Place madeCelaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, North America
Mediumpapier-mâché, paint
DimensionsDog with black spots: 9 1/4 × 7 × 9 1/2 in. (23.495 × 17.78 × 24.13 cm)
Rooster: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (24.13 × 19.05 × 21.59 cm)
Red Bird: 9 1/2 × 7 × 9 in. (24.13 × 17.78 × 22.86 cm)
Red Helmet Lady: 9 1/8 × 5 5/8 × 9 1/2 in. (23.1775 × 14.2875 × 24.13 cm)
Man with beard: 9 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (24.765 × 15.875 × 23.1775 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Girard Foundation Collection
Object numberA.1979.3.356X
DescriptionBrightly painted, papier-mache, helmet style, topped with head of either bird, dog, man or woman.
a. Chicken/Rooster
b. White Bird
c. Woman with Red
d. Woman with Purple
e. Spotted Dog
f. Man with Crown/King
g. Red bird