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Title: Matachines dancer
Creator: Awa Tsireh, 1898-1955
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1920-1930
Publication Information: Ella Strong Denison Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description: Masked dancer in regalia, pink shirt, and cupil (miter) decorated with ribbons; holding a rattle and a palma, or trident. Handwritten on the drawing is "Matachine dance" and the artist's name, Awa'tsireh.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: pap00027.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pap/id/30
Subject: San Ildefonso
Time Period: 20th century
Place: New Mexico
Source: Watercolor on paper, 7 x 11inches; Hartley Burr Alexander Collection of American Indian Artwork
Relation: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/pap

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