Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Toy dog with moving mouth and tail. Square carved dog with black leather ears and tail, black painted spots, eyes, nose, white teeth and red tongue stands on a mount beneath which are a series of wheels. When a handle on one side is turned, the wheels rotate, causing the mouth to move up and down and the tail to swivel.
Small male rag doll with stuffed head, torso and legs, and rolled material arms. Made entirely of various red scraps of material, only the stitched eyes and brows are black. He wears a red beret, pants, shirt and shawl, wide waist band, and has a large, darker red flower on his chest.
Small female rag doll with stuffed head, torso and legs, and rolled material arms. Made entirely of various red scraps of material, only the stitched eyes and brows are black. She wears a red head bow, skirt, shirt and shawl, wide waist band, and has a large, darker red flower on her chest.
Wooden toy with two oxen harnessed to a small orange cart with two large red and black wheels and high, fence-like sides. Inside the cart are carved figurines of a pig, a sheep and a peasant with long staff in his right hand.
Brightly painted portable "retablo" box altar. Two doors open outwards from the centre on leather hinges to show a Nativity scene with Jesus as a toddler. Framed behind gilded pillars are small painted plaster figures and animals which are staggered in rows rising in height towards the larger figures of Joseph and Mary. The exterior of the box and the interior of the doors are painted with floral motifs in red, green, blue, purple, yellow, and black on a white background.
One of a pair of dark brown, panel-like carved wooden posts painted dark brown. Depicted are male figures riding horses, figures standing guard, an elephant and other animals, and a finial that points downwards at the bottom. There is a carved border along the top, back and bottom. The carving tapers towards the base. It is housed in painted plywood supports.
Roughly formed hand coiled gray clay pottery owl standing on two feet. Details are thickly hand painted in brown over a beige slipped background. Lower body and entire head are unpainted, the feather pattern with centre dots beginning at belly level and extending to the head. Vertical wings protrude slightly, as do the ears and remnants of a beak. Eyes are a simple dot. Mouth is open and there is a large hole under the tail.
Black skirt that is part of a girl's costume (2502/2 a-l). The skirt has a waistband that has a red and black geometric pattern with a horizontal green line around the middle on a cream-coloured background.
Clay vessel in the shape of a cow. Brown clay body is painted cream with large patches of red and a raised round spout with pale green rim protrudes up from the back.
Cloth male devil. Two pieces of shaped red cloth are sewn together at the sides and stuffed to form a body that has horns, hair, beard, gloves, boots, shorts, and stomach made from smaller attached pieces of black and pink cloth. A long metal tail wrapped in red wool pokes out and up from rear of shorts, and long brown "hair-like" threads are stitched into the surface.