Glencairn Museum: World Nativities Annual Exhibition (1/26/2022)

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (continued)
We still had time before our 13:30 Christmas in the Castle Tour at Glencairn Museum. We were allowed to explore the first floor exhibit of World Nativities.

Ebony Nativity (c 2000, by a Makonde
artist, Tanzania)

Egyptian Nativity (2009, by Mr Elhamy,
a Coptic Christian, Egypt)

Peruvian Nativity Retablo (2011, by Jeronimo Lozano, Peru)

Peruvian Nativity Retablo/altarpiece detail with
prickly pear fruit; Nativity Exhibition Seek & Find:
How many animals? We counted 11 including llamas

Thailand Nativity with water buffalo

Polish Szopka/Nativity (2013, by
Zbigniew Gillert, Krakow, Poland) was a
2013 first place winner in the category of
medium-size szopki in Krakow, Poland in 2013

Zululand Nativity (2009, 2012, by Kwa Zigi
Gimli group in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa,
using metallic beads, burlap, cotton, wood)

Peruvian Nativity (by Dionisio Rojas Gutierrez, Peru)
features a Spanish Mission-style church

American Nativity (2020, by Karen Loccisano and
R Michael Palan, Bridgewater, NJ) depicts the Nativity
re-imagined during the 1930s Dust Bowl era

American Nativity detail

Presipio/Nativity from Naples (late 19C to early 20 C,
figures collected over a period of 30 years by
Elizabth Anne Evans of Bucks County, PA)

The presipio is a Neapolitan tradition of many centuries, with its "Golden Age" in the 18C, where daily life in 18C Naples, a bustling port city in Italy, is also depicted along with the Nativity of Jesus Christ, Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Wise Men, and the Inn at Bethlehem.

Nativities from Three Continents: Colombia

Nativities from Three Continents: Japan

Nativity with Pinecone Stable (c 1990s, São Paulo, Brazil)
where each figure has a gold accent; Nativity Exhibition
Seek & Find: All the people have their eyes closed and
mouths open - what are they doing? Singing or praying

Turkish Carpet Nativity (2021, by
Mustafa Yigit, Istanbul, Turkey) on a mini loom

Lost Wax Nativity (Burkina Faso in bronze)

Lost Wax Nativity figure of a griot/storyteller
playing the balafon/gourd-resonated xylophone

Pine Forest Nativity (stamped S Sitarski & J Federowicz,
Poland) with only the heads of the ox and donkey peering
through the wooden fence

Nativity from Oaxaca (by Guillermina Aguilar Alcantar,
Oaxaca, Mexico) where Mary holds a blanket incised with
a rose (symbol of Mary) and Joseph holds a white lily

Next: Glencairn Museum: Christmas in the Castle.