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Griffin (1928-2016), Princeton, NJ [1]; 2004, gift to the Princeton University Art Museum.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tNotes:\n\t<br />\n\t[1] On loan to the museum in 1986 (L.1986.91).\n</p>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"Artists from south-central Veracruz occasionally created kinetic, puppet-like figures in clay, such as this wheeled feline and squatting, masked performer. Wheeled “toys”—which, indeed, may have served as children’s playthings—provide the only evidence that wheels were used in any part of Mesoamerica. The other object moved as well. The performer’s head was modeled separately from its body, as was its now-missing lower jaw. Holes at the sides of the mouth, the base of the head, and the top of the neck confirm that multiple strings once held the pieces together. Pulling different strings would have allowed one to move the head and the jaw, animating the sculpture.\n","remarks":"AAA3_20-T6-3_CLA_FA.pdf  - Day 1 installation - Group Chat 2004-46 and 2016-1030 a-b"}],"media":[{"id":93935,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2004-46_1","isprimary":1,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Bruce White Photography"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"John H. Burkhalter III and Gillett G. Griffin,<I> Music from the Land of the Jaguar</I> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2004).","citation":"John H. Burkhalter III and Gillett G. Griffin,<I> Music from the Land of the Jaguar</I> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2004)., cover (illus.)","date":2004,"id":2551,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/457910964"},{"boilertext":"Marilyn M. 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