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Plate V: Native Dwellings of the Pacific Area
Plate V: Native Dwellings of the Pacific Area
Plate V: Native Dwellings of the Pacific Area

Plate V: Native Dwellings of the Pacific Area

Artist (1904 Mexico City, Mexico - 1957 Mexico City, Mexico)
Date1940
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensions19 × 25 in. (48.3 × 63.5 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Albuquerque Museum Foundation from the Lucia v. B. Batten Estate
Object numberPC2020.51.66
DescriptionThis lithograph is of a mural painting of the South Pacific region. The map shows the Asian continent in the upper left corner, with the Australian continent near the lower left corner. North and South America are depicted on the right side of the page. Each continent is covered with illustrations of the types of dwellings people live in in each region. In the lower left corner, there is a piece of illustrated wood with the phrase, "NATIVE DWELLINGS/OF THE PACIFIC AREA." Below this, in small, blue text, it says, "COVARRUBIAS." In the lower right corner, just below the ink of the print, it says, "PLATE V: PAGEANT OF THE PACIFIC, MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS." In the lower left, outside the illustration, from left to right, it says, "REPRODUCTION OF ONE OF SIX MURAL-MAPS IN PACIFIC HOUSE, THEME BUILDING OF THE GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION..COPYRIGHT NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY BY SAN FRANCISCO BAY EXPOSITION COMPANY..PUBLISHED BY PACIFIC HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA..LITHOGRAPHED IN THE U.S.A. BY H.S. CROCKER COMPANY, INC. AND SCHWABACHER-FREY COMPANY."
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