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.
Image Copyright 2008 by Paul Dickinson Goodman
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