The collection relates to Mexico, including pre-Columbian objects, paintings and works on paper by Mexican modernists, and other artworks were likely collected by Frances Toor and following her death, acquired by inheritance by her brother Herbert Toor. Frances Toor, American, 1890-1956, was an American author, publisher, anthropologist and ethnographer whose books and journal "Mexican Folkways" introduced Americans to the folk traditions and art of revolutionary Mexico. She received her MA Anthropology from UC Berkeley.

.6 linear feet (2 boxes, 247 items)

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