DepartmentTextiles-Latin America

Abduction from a taxi

NameWall Hanging

Artist Artist not recorded

Date1980

Place madeSantiago area, Chile, South America

MediumCotton, synthetic fabric and yarn, wool

DimensionsOverall: 14 1/2 x 18 1/8 in. (36.8 x 46 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, gift of Sallie Wagner, FA.1980.68.3

Object numberFA.1980.68.3

DescriptionImage shows a street with several houses and women standing in front of the homes behind a fence. On the street is a white car with people inside, and threel blindfolded people have been removed from the carand are being marched to a nearby white house with a red roof, identified as "casa de secuestro" a house where prisoners are sequestered, questioned and sometimes tortured before being moved to centers or prison.Over the heads of the people on the street are the words "el rapto del colectivo." See notes.