Woodcarving
- Museum number:
- 2-72116a-d
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210272116a@2dd
- Alternate number:
- 2-72116a-c
- Accession number:
- Acc.4762
- Description:
- Wooden two-wheeled cart with skeletal figure riding in center drawing bow. Figure with long gray hair made of cotton or wool, tied with a leather thong. front tip of arrow is broken off and missing. Yoke/tongue is separate piece of wood. Cart base formed by a milled board to which are attached railing on all four sides made of 5 peeled poplar sticks attached to the base via lashing with leather thongs. cart sits on an axle formed by a rough cut 2" x 2" to which dowels have been affixed at each end. Wooden wheels are fitted onto the dowels and a wooden cotter pin keeps the wheels in place. A poplar wood peeled and fork branch forms a tongue. a) cart with seated figure b) second arrow piece c) cart tongue.
- Donor:
- Zeese Papanikolas
- Collection place:
- Cordova, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- Verbatim coll. place:
- North America, United States, New Mexico, Cordova
- Culture or time period:
- Spanish American
- Maker or artist:
- George Lopez
- Materials:
- Aspen (wood), Hide (collagenous material), Juniper (wood), Pine (wood), Poplar (wood), Willow (wood), and Wool (textile)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Woodcarvings (visual works)
- Accession date:
- March 5, 2008
- Context of use:
- decorative - model of a penitente cart
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- b— width 0.4 centimeters, c— width 10 centimeters, wheel span— length 41 centimeters, figure— width 13 centimeters, figure— diameter 13 centimeters, a— length 51.5 centimeters, a— width 31 centimeters, a— height 46 centimeters, c— length 60.5 centimeters, figure— height 37 centimeters, and b— length 11.6 centimeters