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DepartmentLatin America

Figure, woman with hands clasped in front of chest

NameFigure

Maker Herón Martínez Mendoza (Mexican, 1918 - 1990)

Datec. 1958

Place madeAcatlán de Osorio, Puebla, Mexico, North America

MediumCeramic, paint

Dimensions4 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 1 9/16 in. (11 × 4.5 × 3.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1981.38.851

Object numberA.1981.38.851

DescriptionMold made face, hand-built body, painted. Standing figure has black hair and eyes, long braids. She wears a blue-green blouse, white skirt with designs in pink, red-pink and yellow-green, gold and red-pink, pink and blue-green. Her hands are in a praying position.

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