Carreta de la Muerte

NameSculpture

CultureHispano

Date2015

Place madeSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWood, paint, string, feathers, glue, leather

Dimensions17 11/16 × 11 1/4 × 19 5/16 in. (45 × 28.5 × 49 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase with funds from the Linton Family Endowment, A.2016.47.1a-d

Object numberA.2016.47.1a-d

DescriptionDona Sebastiana (a) sits on a chair with a lunette back in an open-sided death cart. She wears a purple dress, a purple hat with white band and feather and white high-top button shoes. She also has a white skeleton face and black and gray pigtails, and is flexing a large bow armed with an arrow. Three more arrows (b - d) are in a leather quiver on her back. The rope-carved parts of the chair, cart, wheels, and legs on base are painted with alternating purple and unpainted sections. The unpainted oblong base has two levels separated by a brown line around the bottom edge of the recessed top level. The title and the artists name are written in one corner of the base.