Toy, Airplane
Name/Title
Toy, AirplaneEntry/Object ID
1987.04.051Description
A palm woven airplane toy. It is made of natural and dyed palm leaf strips. It has a rectangular shaped body with horizontal green strips woven with natural magneta, purple, yellow and red strips; red palm propellor. It has wings of green, natural, yellow red, and magneta guano strips. The tail wing of natural, yellow, green, and magneta red, purple, yellow, and green guano strips. The wheels are of natural guano. A cotton string is attached loosely to the front wing and tail wing of the plane.Artwork Details
Medium
Guano (form of palm)Made/Created
Artist
Moses Ushcanu family (Maya)Date made
1980 - 1987Ethnography
Culture/Tribe
Mexican