San Miguel Archangel

NameSculpture

Artist Artist unrecorded

Place collectedNew Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWood, gesso, paint, tin, leather

DimensionsOverall: 18 1/2 x 10 7/16 x 3 15/16 in. (47 x 26.5 x 10 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, bequest of Cady Wells, A9.1954.5 B

Object numberA9.1954.5 B

DescriptionIn the style of the Santo Nino Santero. Miguel has the acute, "Egyptian slave statuette" features typical of this santero's bultos. The dress is conventionally after baroque prototypes, armor on legs, cuirass, tunic, bare legs. The wings and helmet are of tin, he holds scales of alamo root, gesso and paint with rawhide thongs.