Miniature La Pandilla de La Roma

Art

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El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Name/Title

Miniature "La Pandilla de La Roma"

Entry/Object ID

E-66

Description

A wood and clay miniature of a pool hall scene. Three skeleton men are depicted standing on a red and white checkered floor, playing pool. All three men are dressed in suits, one light blue, one white, and the last black. Two of the men are bald, while the third, in the light blue suit, wears a hat. At the bottom is a piece of paper labeled in Spanish, "La Pandilla de La Roma", or "The Roma Gang"

Artwork Details

Medium

Clay, Wood

Collection

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Category

Day of the Dead
Ethnography, Anthropology

Acquisition

Accession

99.01.03

Source or Donor

Torrija Family Gallery

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Mexico

Culture/Tribe

Mexican

Notes

From Mexico City, the neighborhood of Zona Rosa

Dimensions

Height

2 in

Length

4 in

Color

Red, Blue, Black, White

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

This object has two sets of catalog/accession numbers. The set listed here is the set for El Camino Anthropology Museum, while the second set can only be assumed to be from the Torrija Family Gallery (catalog number LA114 (543), accession number 91.15.114). The original accession number is written in ink on the bottom, upper left of this object, while the number listed here is written on bottom, right corner.

Note Type

In-House Note

Note

After finding several other entries of this kind, it can only be assumed that these Day of the Dead objects where re-assigned accession numbers at some point, but no records of this have been found.