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Paper packet of facial powder (polvo facial), unbranded
Object/Artifact
Small rectangular packet of kraft paper, folded closed, heavily toned, soiled, and spotted. No printing, label, stamp, or maker's mark appears anywhere on the surface. It contains facial powder.
2025.1.371
Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
A plain, unprinted paper packet used to hold or dispense loose facial powder. Such packaging is typically undatable on its own and is most associated with periods of acute shortage; in the Cuban context this points especially to the Período Especial of the 1990s, though plain-paper dispensing recurred at other times as well. No branding ties it to a specific producer.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Date: undetermined; plain generic paper packaging suggests a scarcity period and is undatable from the object alone — it may postdate 1990 (e.g., the Período Especial), which would place it at or just beyond the upper edge of the 1959–1990 collection period.
21 cm
8 cm
Folded paper packet (single component). Contents (powder).
Paper
Kraft paper; facial powder.
Good
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
The interest of this item is documentary, not as a branded product: it evidences generic/improvised cosmetic packaging under scarcity.