Miniature Gracias, Pepe, La Banca Esnuestra

Art

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El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Name/Title

Miniature "Gracias, Pepe, La Banca Esnuestra"

Entry/Object ID

E-68

Description

A wood and clay miniature of a skeleton lying on a green floor with a wooden pink bench resting on top of him. The bench has a slip of paper with the words "Gracias, Pepe, La Banca Esnuestra" in Spanish.

Artwork Details

Medium

Clay, Wood

Collection

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Category

Day of the Dead
Ethnography, Anthropology

Acquisition

Accession

99.01.05

Source or Donor

The Craft and Folk Art Museum

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Mexico

Culture/Tribe

Mexican

Notes

Mexico City, Mexico, Zona Rosa neighborhood

Dimensions

Height

1 in

Depth

2 in

Length

3 in

Color

Green, Pink, 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 LA116 (547), accession number 91.15.116). The original accession number is written in ink on the bottom, middle/right side, while the number listed here is written on bottom, left 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.