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Seven Dance Figures

1930s

Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez)

(San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1899–1971)
Culture
America, Native North American, Southwest, New Mexico, Pueblo, San Ildefonso, Early 20th century
Medium
watercolor
Measurements
Matted: 38.9 x 57.5 cm (15 5/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.929
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Description

This highly stylized image of dancers posed against a blank background was painted by Oqwa Pi (Red Cloud). Also known as Abel Sanchez, he was key to a major development in the Indigenous arts of the Southwest, when Native artists took control of interpreting and representing their cultures through the medium of watercolor. These artists drew their subject matter from the nonsacred parts of Indigenous ceremonies as well as traditional ceramic and mural imagery. Oqwa Pi was also a politician, serving the San Ildefonso Pueblo as governor for six terms.
Horizontally oriented watercolor painting of seven, identical stylized people with medium-light skin tones arcing across off-white paper. They have black bob hairstyles with "X" shaped headdresses. Their eyes and mouth are shaped as white circles from which extends a line on either side, outlined in black. They wear yellow and black shirts and stockings, white skirts with geometric patterns on one side, and fern-like foliage around their necks and in their left hands.

Seven Dance Figures

1930s

Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez)

(San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1899–1971)
America, Native North American, Southwest, New Mexico, Pueblo, San Ildefonso, Early 20th century

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