Accession No
1991.178 C
Description
Caritas para pan de muerto. Painted dough head with handle, made from Pan de Muerto ('Bread of the Dead'), made as a gift or altar offering during Day of the Dead celebrations. Features an angel head wearing a large green hat with pink and yellow decoration. Section missing from lower left side of hat.
Place
Americas; North America; Mexico; Oaxaca
Period
Source
Norget, Kristin [collector]; Crowther-Beynon Grant [monetary donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1991.178 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Dough; Paint
Local Term
Caritas para pan de muerto
Measurements
130mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1991.178 A-S: '19 modelled and painted dough heads, some decorated with sparkles, with small handles at bottom. The heads or ' Caritas para pan de muerto' are baked into round loaves of ' pan de muerto' or bread of the dead. The bread is used as an offering on the household altar or is be given as a gift in the household exchanges common during the festival........ C) Angel face with large ornamented green hat.....'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Kristin Norget in 1990.
Event Date 1990
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Caritas para pan de muerto. Painted dough head with handle, made from Pan de Muerto ('Bread of the Dead'), made as a gift or altar offering during Day of the Dead celebrations. Features an angel head wearing a large green hat with pink and yellow decoration. Section missing from lower left side of hat.
Event Date 29/6/2021
Author: Jazmin Hundal
FM:292553
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