Palm Sunday Christ

Cuilapan, Oaxaca, Mexico
Palm Sunday Christ (Donkey; white robe, purple cape). 
Hollow construction; carved hair, painted eyes; fabric garments; donkey's mane and tail are real; leather harness; approximately 4½ feet tall. 

The material seems to be the same as the Resurrected Christ standing beside it, possibly corn- or cane-paste though the features are more standard and the statue does not seem to be the work of the same artist. Neither hand is visible beneath the sleeves. The face and the mount have been repainted.


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Photo: Claire and Richard Stracke.
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