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NameFigure Group

Artist Artist unrecorded

Date1974

Place madeLa Paz, Bolivia, South America

MediumWood (maguey); pasta (potato paste), fabric, paint

Dimensions3 15/16 × 5 5/8 × 4 7/16 in. (10 × 14.3 × 11.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.1979.13.5X

Object numberA.1979.13.5X

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionTwo ladies selling fruit and vegetables, sitting on pink bases and wearing rebozos. Each wears a black hat and gold earrings. One has a box of tomatoes and piles of pumpkins, onions, beans and holds a bunch of onions. The other has baskets with oranges, cucumbers?, apples, oranges, tomatoes, and holds three tomatoes in each hand.