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- Date created
- circa 2000
- Culture/People
- Tigua Kichua
- Artist/Maker
- Luis Toaquiza, Tigua Kichua
- Collector
- Dr. Norman E. Whitten, Non-Indian
- Dorothea Scott Whitten (Sibby Whitten), Non-Indian, 1930-2011
- Donor
- Dr. Norman E. Whitten, Non-Indian
- Collection History
- Collected or acquired at an unknown date by anthropologists Norman E. Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten (1930–2011) during anthropological research and humanitarian work with the Amazonian peoples of Ecuador; donated to NMAI by Dr. Norman E. Whitten in 2019.
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- Place
- Tigua; Pujilí Canton; Cotopaxi Province; Ecuador
- See related items
- Tigua Kichua
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 27/506
- Barcode
- 270506.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Sheepskin (domestic sheep), acrylic paint, wood, metal nails
- Techniques
- Painted, stretched, nailed
- Dimensions
- 20 x 30 x 1.8 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_416351