DepartmentUnited States & Canada
Man riding chicken figurine
NameSculpture
Maker
Elsie Benally
(Navajo)
CultureDiné (Navajo)
Date1980s
Place madeSweetwater, Arizona, United States, North America
MediumClay, paint, feather, fabric, organic fibrous material.
Dimensions4 3/4 × 4 1/2 × 2 in. (12.065 × 11.43 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Robert T. Coffland in memory of Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, A.2013.6.14
Object numberA.2013.6.14
DescriptionClay figurine atop brown clay chicken, feather fashioned to back of clay chicken, human-shaped figurine has stylistic hair attached to back of head wearing painted green and orange.
21st century
20th century
ca. 1955