Etnografisk samling med sex föremål från México och ett från USA. Köp från herr Björn Mathiasson, Haga Nygata 5, 413 01 Göteborg för kr. 175:-. Säljaren insamlade föremålen 1968.
Samlingen inkom till GEM 1973-11-09.
Katalogisering Rose Marie Cooper 1973-11-19.
"During the night of All Souls copal is burnt in cencers whilst the families of thedeparted sit by their graves.
In the region of the Zapotecs in the state of Oaxaca the cencors are still fashioned in the same shape as they were hundreds of years ago.
The figures that adorn the rim of the cencer symbolize the souls of the the dead who according to an old Mexican belief, return to the living once a year- during the night of All Souls."