Musica y Desfraices autent: cos de la comunidad y de las Fiestas Indigenos Music and Authentic Masks of the Community and of the Indigenous Fiestas

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Date created: 2000

Culture/People: Tigua Kichua
Artist/Maker: Alfredo Toaquiza Ugsha, Tigua Kichua, b. 1966
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 by anthropologists Norman E. Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten (1930–2011) in 2000 during anthropological research and humanitarian work with the Amazonian peoples of Ecuador; donated to NMAI by Dr. Norman E. Whitten in 2020.
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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: 27/582
Barcode: 270582.000

Object Type: Painting/Drawing/Print

Title: Musica y Desfraices autent: cos de la comunidad y de las Fiestas Indigenos [Music and Authentic Masks of the Community and of the Indigenous Fiestas]
Object Name: Painting
Media/Materials: Sheepskin (domestic sheep), acrylic paint, wood, metal nails
Techniques: Painted, stretched, nailed
Dimensions: 25.2 x 35.1 x 3.5 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6fa3d1291-5cd0-4620-a9ff-22af89dc428e

Record ID: NMAI_416428