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Start Over Media available legacy documentation Collection place East-Central Mexico Donor Barbara E. Busch
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 3-29552, described as bag or satchel; red wool geometric designs based on triangles on white cotton; plaited white and red carrying cord; l. bag body 34 cm, w. 26.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Blouse, accession number 3-29380, described as Plainweave cotton with blue birds in counted thread inlay embroidery, white, sqquare neck with smocked ruffle, two pockets, short sleeves, width across shoulders 59 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Chicken sculpture, accession number 3-25326, described as Stacked birds, polychrome ceramic; four birds, decreasing in size bottom to top; bottom bird has topknot; beak on top bird restored; white ground with bright yellow, orange, green, and blues; "Mexico" painted on underside; height 29.5 cm. Conservation: Beak on top bird restored by friend of donor.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 3-28529, described as Tableaux; crouching old man with cotton beard and hair, dyed corn leaves for body and garments; holding bucket wrapped with red thread; facing him is a woman holding matching bucket; both use canes; bark base; H man 13 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 3-28530, described as Tableaux; bearded, crouching old man with cotton beard and hair, crouching old woman, both holding bucket; each carrying "wood" on back, dyed corn leaves body and garments, both carrying canes; bark base. height man ca. 14.5 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Figurines, accession number 3-26800, described as Figurines representing elderly couple, dyed cornhusk; each standing on masonite rectangle; a) man with cane, conical hat; white cotton "hair"; height 14.5 cm.; b) woman with cane, bucket; height 12 cm. Context of use: souvenir; cf. 3-28529.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Gourd bowl, accession number 3-28715, described as Gourd bowl. Purple dyed background, incised design of bird and flowers. Diameter: 12 cm., Height: 5.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Loom, accession number 3-29084, described as Loom model with textile in process; black deer on pink ground in so-called "double weave" (colors reversed on opposite side); loom parts in place; size woven part only w. 26 cm, l. 27 cm
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Miniature burro, accession number 3-26799a-c, described as Figurines; burros with saddlebags with "leaves" inserted in them; plaited and dyed palm fiber; each ca. 6 cm high at ears.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Papercut, accession number 3-29551, described as Papercut (bark paper) glued to bark paper and mounted on masonite; standing spirit figure with elaborate headdress; rep. of seed spirit image; masonite is 20.2 cm high x 14.4 cm wide. Context of use: See fig. 91, "Dios de Garbanzo (Spirit of the Garbanzo Bean)" in Sandstrom & Sandstrom, "Traditional Papermaking and Paper Cult Figures of Mexico." See text 168-169. Formanu. of barkpaper see 27-31, Sandstrom. The group of images from which ours comes includes the seed spirits used by shamans to ensure crop fertility. See pp 130 ff.

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