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Title
Five Women's Altar (detail)
Creator
Mesa-Bains, Amalia, Artist
Contributor
Mesa-Bains, Amalia, Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
November 1976
1976-11-02
1976-11-26
Publication Information
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution
UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection
Galería De La Raza archives
Rights Information
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California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010; cema@library.ucsb.edu (805) 893-8563
Description
From Galería de la Raza/Studio 24's Day of the Dead Exhibition. Photo is of a multi-leveled altar adorned with marigolds, calaveras, small sculptures, corn husks, and feathers. Detail is of the uppermost portion of the altar, which features feathers and corn husks behind a white mask. Beside the mask are statues of the Virgen de Guadalupe and Ganesa and a candle. The next level down features calaveras and marigolds.
Cat. 3 022(6)
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Type
image
Form/Genre
35mm slide
Assemblage (art)
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6s20105m
CEMA 4
Subject
Altars
Calaveras
Candles and lights
Chicana art
Chicanas
Chicano art
Chicanos
Corn in art
Death in art
Día de los muertos
Feather (material)
Flowers in art
Marigolds
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Cactus
Ganesa (Hindu deity)
Religion in art
Masks
Plaster casts
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)

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