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Object Number 997-20-10/74722
Display Title Plaque figuring three yeis
Descriptions
Object Description Escutcheon-shaped board with terrace-cut top figuring three yei biche figures carved in raised relief and painted on the front; edges perforated for hanging and threaded with a thong. In pencil on back "Yei Bechi ceremony Sand painting there are six female figures and six males. It is a 9 day cerm This ceremony can only be had after frost. It has four different Sand paintings and this is one of them. The square head is the male, and oval the female. Edmund Tracey." Different hand writing: "Edmund Tracey Carver San Ildefonso"
Inventory Description Plaque, carved and polychrome painted Yei figures on rectangular base.
Classification
  • Communication artifacts
Department Ethnographic
Date 1930-1939 ca.
Artist Edmund Tracey
Culture
  • San Ildefonso
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico / Santa Fe County / San Ildefonso Pueblo / San Ildefonso Pueblo
Dimensions Overall: 19.9 x 13.8 x 2.5 cm (7 13/16 x 5 7/16 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object Inscription on back (see desc.), and signed "Edmund Tracey __(?) San Ildefonso"; 997-20-10/74722
Credit Line Gift of Harriet C. Cushman
Provenance
Collector William Allen Cushman (1930-1940 ca.)
Donor Harriet C. Cushman (8/14/97)

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