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DepartmentLatin America
Coffin with Skeleton Mechanical Toy
NameToy
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Dateca 1956
Place madeMexico, North America
MediumPaper, ceramic, paint, string
Dimensions1 3/8 × 6 5/16 × 4 5/16 in. (3.5 × 16 × 11 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.17.462
Object numberA.1979.17.462
DescriptionCardboard coffin, painted black; white lid over the opening; ceramic skeletong wits up when lid is raised by pulling a string; letters: R.I.P. SOILA.
c. 1950
Artist Not Recorded
Torah scroll: Circa 1875; Tik (Case): 1933 (Hebrew Year 5693)
