The piece will be exhibited the day after tomorrow at the Regional Museum of Sonora, before reaching its place of origin, INAH indicated on its website.
He points out that this activity is carried out in follow-up to the agreement signed by the INAH, the Arizona Historical Society and the Diocese of Nogales, through which those valuable Sonoran cultural assets were returned to Mexico, in August of last year, from the United States.
Both pieces were part of the national exhibition entitled La Grandeza de México, with venues at the National Museum of Anthropology and the Ibero-American Hall of the Ministry of Public Education, to make visible the importance of the repatriation of cultural assets of the nation.
The institute indicates that after this exhibition period, the baptismal font and its sprinkler will arrive at the Hermosillo museum, for the appreciation of the population, with the aim of recognizing and valuing a sample of the national historical heritage.
Then they will continue their journey to Caborca, where they will stay overnight.
The font corresponds to a baptismal piece made in the 18th century, forged in copper, oval, with a multi-lobed floriform design, engraved and hand-painted in red and white, with various motifs of green and orange petals; It contains a lid and a teardrop-shaped riveted iron latch.
The Caborca Mission is located on the route of the Pimería Alta missions, founded by Eusebio Francisco Kino, between Sonora and Arizona, and represents an extensive heritage, made up of its architecture, religious orders, historical documentation, aesthetic expressions, indigenous traditions and cultural, settled.
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