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Object Number
995-29-10/73707
Display Title
Polychrome-on-off white River Man
Descriptions
Object Description
Standing male wearing black robe with off white band at waist, button placket down front from waist to hem, long sleeves, red band at neck with black vertical lines to top of garment. Off white necklace with cross. Holds wooden stick with long leather strip attached at top. Off white legs with high black boots. Off white face with protruding ears with one red cross on each ear. Chicken comb on top of head in black, off white and red. Black eyes, protruding nose, open red mouth. One red cross on each cheek. Dimensions: 31 cm high x 13.6 cm wide x 9.0 cm max. length.
* Signed on bottom S. Ortiz, Cochiti, N.M.
Inventory Description
Figurine, standing anthropomorphic figure wearing monk's robe holding whip
Classification
- Figurine
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1960-1989
Artist
Seferina Ortiz
Culture
- Cochiti
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
New Mexico
Materials
Ceramic, Leather, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 31.8 x 13.7 x 10 cm (12 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73707 S. Ortiz / Cochiti, N. M.
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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