DepartmentLatin America

Skeleton Policeman

NameSculpture

Maker David Moctezuma

Date1990

Place madeDistrito Federal, Mexico, North America

MediumPapier-mâché, glue, paint

Dimensions15 3/8 × 9 1/4 × 6 in. (39 × 23.495 × 15.24 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peter P. Cecere

Object numberA.2008.25.2

Collections

Latin America

DescriptionThis skeleton figure wears a blue policeman's uniform, the jacket of which has two rows of silver buttons down the front and blue outlines of pockets.The billed blue hat has a round white circle in the center front.The shoes are black and especially "lumpy". One hand has fingers outstretched, the other holds a black baton.His mustached face has very large teeth and deep set black eye holes with white pupils.