Painting
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- Tigua Kichua
- Artist/Maker
- Magdalena Toaquiza Ugsha, 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
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Sheepskin (domestic sheep), acrylic paint, wood, metal nails
- Techniques
- Painted, stretched, nailed
- Dimensions
- 25 x 35.2 x 2.3 cm
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Place
- Tigua; Pujilí Canton; Cotopaxi Province; Ecuador
- Date created
- September 2004
- Collection History
- Collected or acquired by anthropologists Norman E. Whitten and Dorothea Scott Whitten (1930–2011) in 2004 during anthropological research and humanitarian work with the Amazonian peoples of Ecuador; donated to NMAI by Dr. Norman E. Whitten in 2019.
- Catalog Number
- 27/505
- Barcode
- 270505.000
- See related items
- Tigua Kichua
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement