El arraigo de las costumbres

Translated as The Rootedness of Customs or the Rooting of Customs, this is a wooden sculpture of a man carrying a small open coffin with the lifeless body of a young child.

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Creator

Ciriaco Gaudínez and Javier (Philippine Islands, 1848 - 1919/20)

Date

Around 1887

Rights

© Museo del Prado, used with permission

Materials

Carving

Physical Dimensions

Height: 82 cm .; Width: 29 cm .; Depth: 41 cm.

Provenance

Overseas Museum, 1887-1908; Museum of Modern Art, 1908-1971.

Display status

(On loan) to National Museum of Anthropology - Madrid - Madrid - Spain

References

García Llansó, Antonio, El Museo Biblioteca de Ultramar, Tipolitografía de Luis Tasso, Barcelona, 1897, pp. 80. Discovering Philippine art in Spain, Dept. of Foreign Affairs and National Centennia..., Manila, 1998. Díaz Pascual, Concha, Escultores Filipinos 1850 - 1898 (A -J), Cuaderno de Sofonisba,

Informative blog on Philippine Sculpture in the Prado


Sánchez Gómez, Luis Ángel, “Indigenous Art in the Philippine Exposition of 1887: Arguments for an ideological and racial battle in a colonial context”, in Journal of the History of Collections 14, no. 2 (2002), pp. 283 – 294.

Official Website

https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/el-arraigo-de-las-costumbres/65e5f5a6-fbdd-48b5-a5a9-a982ea0d846f?searchMeta=e000968

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No Collection

Source

Translated by Google Translate
Record accessed in March 2021
Edited for grammar by the Mapping team

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Ciriaco Gaudínez and Javier (Philippine Islands, 1848 - 1919/20), “El arraigo de las costumbres ,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed June 24, 2021, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/6034.

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