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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2009 School for Advanced Research.

Painting

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2009 School for Advanced Research.

Painting

Artist or Maker: Leo Quetoque
Dimensions:
Overall: 74.3 x 50.8 cm (29 1/4 x 20 in.)
Overall1: 75.6 x 50.8 cm (29 3/4 x 20 in.)
Medium: illustration board: wove, smooth, cream | paint, watercolor | pencil, colored
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.P57
Not on view
DescriptionThis painting depicts a Navajo dance group with seven dancers. The figure on the far left of the group is the father (leader) of the group and is a medicine man. He is carrying a corn meal bowl in his left hand. The next figure has elaborate feather fan on the back of his head and wears a green ruff, a brown shirt and black trousers; three figures have blue and white faces with two feathers on top, and they wear green ruffs, and varying kilts, and their bodies are painted white; two female figures have blue faces with long black hair and red beards.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksJim Enote and Octavius Seowtewa during collection review visit June 10 and 11, 2009 (Events Record “Collection Review: Zuni Tribe, Review 2”): This painting depicts a Navajo dance group. The catalog description calls it a Navajo Rain Dance group, but this is incorrect; it should be changed to just Navajo dance group. The figure on the far left of the group is the father (leader) of the group and is a medicine man. His is carrying a corn meal bowl in his left hand. He always wears a red feather on his head, which identifies him as part of the medicine society. However, the red feather is missing in this depiction. The Navajo dance group used to come during Shalako, but it has not come for approximately 20 years.

The artist who painted this piece, Leo Quetoque, is the father of the artist who painted IAF.P53, Jefferson Quetoque.
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