Katy Dickinson

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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20080809 Saturday August 09, 2008

Dancing Skeleton

My teenage kids have been helping my mother photograph some of her art collection this summer. One of the items which got mixed in with the Mexican folk art is a music box I bought her years ago in San Francisco's Chinatown. (I wrote on December 03, 2007 about our annual trips to Chinatown.) This small music box is typical of the odd and charming mixed-culture goods available there.

The music box is black with a gold rim, it plays a can-can tune and features a skeleton wearing a red hat, gloves, and shoes, juggling two striped balls. The cut paper skeleton dances energetically in his black shadowbox when the music plays. The skeleton is like a Mexican Day of the Dead figure set in the European context of a music box.

Dancing skeleton music box from Chinatown photo: copyright 2008 Paul Dickinson Goodman

Image Copyright 2008 by Paul Dickinson Goodman

Posted at 09:02AM Aug 09, 2008 by katysblog in News & Reviews  | 

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