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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
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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