DepartmentLatin America
Ceramic Sculpture, Pieta Andina
NameSculpture
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Date1970-1975
Place madeHuancayo, Junin, Peru, South America
MediumCeramic, paint
Dimensions7 3/4 × 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (19.685 × 14.605 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Becca Mudge, Susi Mudge, Sarah Mudge and Katy Mudge, A.2016.9.2
Object numberA.2016.9.2
DescriptionUn-glazed ceramic statue of a seated, crying woman, wearing a rectangular black hat, holding the figure of an unclothed deceased man on her lap. Face, hands and feet are disproportionatly large. Signed "N. Castro."
Rosalia Tineo Torres
2017
CA 1965, STAFF
