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"Se Nos Cayo La Luna Para Amar La Tierra" (The moon fell so we could love the Earth)
"Se Nos Cayo La Luna Para Amar La Tierra" (The moon fell so we could love the Earth)
"Se Nos Cayo La Luna Para Amar La Tierra" (The moon fell so we could love the Earth)

"Se Nos Cayo La Luna Para Amar La Tierra" (The moon fell so we could love the Earth)

Artist Osvaldo Viteri
Date1980
Place madeQuito, Pichincha, Ecuador, South America
Mediumwood, fiber, synthetic, adhesive
Dimensions48 1/2 × 3 in. (123.1902 × 7.62 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Duncan E. and Elizabeth Boeckman, A.1987.6.1
Object numberA.1987.6.1
Description"Se nos cayo la luna para amar la tierra." The moon fell so we could love the earth. Assemblage of 172 hand-made rag dolls glued to round wood backing, painted black. Dolls arranged in three visual concentric circles: outer circle contains single row of 73 dolls. two in center. orange background.
On View
Not on view
Acrobat dolls
Artist unrecorded
c. 1960
Sisal Doll
c. 1975
DOLL
Artist unrecorded
ca 1960
Doll
Artist unrecorded
c. 1970
Saint Nicholas
Gary Campbell
1990s
Corpus Christi Dance Costume Headdress
Artist unrecorded
Mid-20th Century, Staff
Pair of Female Dolls
Artist unrecorded
c. 1958
Pair of Dolls
Artist unrecorded
c. 1958
Pair of Dolls
Artist unrecorded
c. 1958