Portrait Of An Indian -- Pueblo of Taos, NM

Artist Joseph H. Sharp (1859 Bridgeport, Ohio - 1953 Pasadena, California)

Dateca. 1915

Mediumwatercolor, graphite, pastel

DimensionsOverall: 10 x 7 in. (25.4 x 17.8 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1991 General Obligation Bonds

Object numberPC1992.76.1

DescriptionSubject depicted standing, from the waist up, left 3/4 pose. Black hair, braided and parted in the middle. Brown eyes. Hair Ornament of shell, beads, leather; eagle feather attached above subjects left forehead and descending along hair braid. Wearing plains style buckskin shirt, v-neck with either beadwork or cloth piping and fringe along the neck. Yellow cloth ascot. Lavender neckercheif scured at throat with shell ornament. Light green background. Subject might be Jerry 'Elk Foot' Mirabel.

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