Silver Coffin with skeleton inside

Art

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El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Name/Title

Silver Coffin with skeleton inside

Entry/Object ID

E-104

Description

Small silver coffin with black markings in the side. A cross is on top. Window looking into coffin shows skeleton's skull. There is a string coming out of bottom of coffin, which if you pull, the skeleton's skull comes out of the window.

Collection

El Camino College Anthropology Museum

Category

Day of the Dead
Ethnography, Anthropology

Acquisition

Accession

99.01.41

Ethnography

Cultural Region

* Untyped Cultural Region

Mexico

Notes

Zona Rosa, Cuidad de Mexico, D.F.

Color

Silver, White, Black, Green