Painting

77-6-1

From: New Mexico | San Ildefonso

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 77-6-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture San Ildefonso Pueblo
Provenience New Mexico | San Ildefonso
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Creator Awa Tsireh
Section American
Materials Paper | Paint
Technique Watercolor
Description

Water color(?) on brown paper. Male figure standing at left wearing white animal skin tunic and yellow leggings. His shield and spear are on the ground next him. His left arm is outstreched toward 4 animals on right side of drawing. Animals: deer, buffalo, antelope, eagle. Seven arches along top of drawing-symbolizing sky?

By Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal, died March 1955), #36.

Length 52.1 cm
Width 10 cm
Credit Line Gift of Anne Rowland, 1977
Other Number 36 - Maker Number

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