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Figure, singer

Date: 2000

Artist or Maker: Mary E. Trujillo (b. 1937)

Dimensions:

Overall: 38.1 x 19.1 x 20.3 cm (15 x 7 1/2 x 8 in.)

Medium: clay | paints | wood

Credit Line: Indian Arts Research Center purchase for the permanent collection, 2000.

Object Number: SAR.2000-5-5

Not on view

DescriptionStanding male, mouth opened, holding wooden bow in his left hand with wooden arrows on back and clay deer on his right shoulder. Upraised clay hair, painted black with reddish scarf on top. Clay quiver on back with raised clay around neck for holding quiver. Face has two black lines for eyes, and the open mouth is painted reddish brown inside. Long sleeves with four-pointed floral designs. Top of shirt has two black vertical lines on top. Second block has reddish triangles on top and bottom. Third block is an inverted step. The fourth block has five vertical red lines. Belt is upraised clay with black borders. Five black blocks spaced around four "V" patterns in back. Kilt is mid-calf.

* Please note: Mary Trujillo is Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan) and Isleta, but married into Cochiti Pueblo (Leonard Trujillo). She learned how to make Cochiti-style pottery from her mother-in-law, Helen Cordero, and works in that style.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Isleta collection review visit May 2-3, 2022 (Events Record “Collection Review: Isleta Collection Review 2"): The participants do not believe this artist, Mary Trujillo, is the same, Mary E. Trujillo, from Isleta Pueblo. This does not look Isleta.

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