Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.
Figurine, roadrunner
Date: before 2014
Artist or Maker: Dolores (Lewis) Garcia (b.1938)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 3.5 × 7.4 × 2 cm (1 3/8 × 2 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Weight: 15.88 g (0.56 oz.)
Medium: clay | paints
Credit Line: Bequest of Helenn J. Rumpel; received at IARC in 2015.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.2015-2-22
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit February 17-19, 2016 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 5”): This is a roadrunner made by (Mary) Dolores Lewis Garcia. Her first name is Mary but she now goes by Dolores. This is one of the few pieces where she signed her name as Mary D Lewis. One of her sister’s names is Mary Ethel Lewis Garcia and she signs her name “Mary Garcia”.
In Collection(s)
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