Figurines

Dimensions11.43 × 5.72 × 5.72 cm (4 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 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 numberM1801

DescriptionFigurine of a (presumably Mexican) woman wearing blue and white and carrying a child on her back in a white papoose. In her right hand she holds a woven straw basket with some sort of linen inside. This figurine is one of a pair; see M1800.