DepartmentLatin America

Calavera

NameFigure

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Datec. 1960

Place madeMexico, North America

MediumWax, wool, tissue, paint

Dimensions4 3/16 × 2 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (10.6 × 6.4 × 10.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.6.709

Object numberA.1979.6.709

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionWax, molded figure lying on folded piece of tissue. Red, knitted wool strip under head. Sewn to tissue with brown thread. Red cheeks. Protruding lips; small oval hole mouth. Painted. Unknown liquid inside wax figure.

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