Mechanical toy, Day of the Dead funeral procession

NameFigure Group

Artist Artist not recorded

Datec. 1956

(not assigned)México

Place madeMEXICO, NORTH AMERICA

MediumPapier mache, paint, garbanzo beans, metal

Dimensions14 3/4 × 17 11/16 × 4 1/2 in. (37.5 × 45 × 11.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.17.339

Object numberA.1979.17.339

DescriptionCarboard base painted yellow, black two towers; one with cross; one white, other purple; each with brick-like roof. Procession of 8 paper figures with cotton hair, bright paper costumes. Figures mounted on cloth strip which winds to make them move.