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Otomí Style Human Figures Representing Agricultural Crops
Otomí Style Human Figures Representing Agricultural Crops
Otomí Style Human Figures Representing Agricultural Crops

Otomí Style Human Figures Representing Agricultural Crops

Artist (born 1945 Mexico City, Mexico; lives Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Date2020
Mediumcut paper
Dimensionssheet: 25 × 10 in. (63.5 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaper Art
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the artist
Object numberPC2023.3.1.9
DescriptionA series of black paper cuts used to create the installation titled "Global Connections: Mesoamerican Myths, the Domestication of Nourishment, and its Distribution" at the Greenway Park in Boston.This paper includes three vignettes of Otomí style human figures. Each carries a basket on their head, from top to bottom containing corn, squash, and chile.
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