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Terms
- Figurines
- Ceramic
Dimensions13.34 × 8.26 × 7.62 cm (5 1/4 × 3 1/4 × 3 in.)
MarkingsLabel found stored with object reads: "Two Mexican Pottery Figures / one of male pottery pedler [sic], the other of woman with child on her back, bought in Mexico City, Old Mexico, in 1888 by Wm Leighton Jr. [William Leighton], his wife + daughter as souvenir-gifts to Eliza Leighton Barrett, wife of Dr. Henry A. Barrett of Concord Mass."
Credit LineGift of Miss Mary Leighton, in memory of Mrs. Eliza Leighton Barrett (1938)
Object numberM1800
DescriptionFigurine of a (presumably Mexican) man wearing a straw hat, blue and white poncho, and sandals. On his back is a wooden crate supporting several pieces of pottery. A walking stick rests lightly in his right hand, and can be removed. This figurine is one of a pair; see M1801.
Object number: M1801
Object number: B2026.5.14
