4144 – Mari Lwyd Postcard

Physical description:

Postcard showing the Mari Lwyd horse skull, with interesting details such as the horse's red fabric ears, and the ribbons and bells on the bridle. From a painting by Rose Hughes.

Museum classification:

Festivals

Information:

The Mari Lwyd is a rather Shamanic part-horse part-human figure, rather like the Padstow Obby Oss. This postcard shows the head, consisting of a horse's skull with a decorative bridle.

The postcard is from Amgueddfa Werin Cymru (The Welsh Folk Museum), and was bought there in the 1990s. It is from a painting by Rose Hughes dating from 1977.

Resource:

Picture

Materials:

Card

Copyright ownership:

Rose Hughes / Amgueddfa Werin Cymru

The Mari Lwyd is a rather Shamanic part-horse part-human figure, rather like the Padstow Obby Oss. This postcard shows the head, consisting of a horse's skull with a decorative bridle.

The postcard is from Amgueddfa Werin Cymru (The Welsh Folk Museum), and was bought there in the 1990s. It is from a painting by Rose Hughes dating from 1977.

3848 – Apple Doll

A doll with her head carved from an apple. She has white glass bead eyes, and is quite elaborately dressed, with a floral pinafore, a matching cap, a pink dress, petticoat, bloomers etc.. The head has shrunk to a somewhat disproportionately small size relative to the rest of the doll - which suggests she might be quite old.

3639 – Ceramic dish belonging to Julia Pearce

Small round dish, handcrafted out of red clay, with a turquoise slip glaze that has been scored through to reveal the red clay underneath, creating a pattern of two daffodils and a saying in Welsh, translated on a label on the base as "The earlier the harrow, the earlier the sickle." Also stamped on the base with the maker's name, Doniau Cudd.

134 – Horse skull

Horse's skull.