DepartmentLatin America
Print, Somos Raiz / We are the Roots
NameScreen print
Maker
Amapolay
Date2017
Place madeLima, Lima, Peru, South America
MediumPaper, ink
Dimensions23 15/16 × 17 11/16 × 3/8 in. (60.8 × 45 × 1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.42.1
Object numberFA.2017.42.1
DescriptionScreen print on thick, white paper. Image of the face of a human figure looking to the left at three quarter profile. The figure has brown skin, black hair and facial markings. One line of red goes down the nose and three horizontal lines on the right cheek and two on the left. On either side of the figure's heads are the heads of snarling panthers, in dark blue, with flourescent green whiskers. At the top of the print is the word SOMOS and at the bottom is RAIZ. Beneath the central figure are flowers in flourescent green, yellow, red and dark blue, and two naked children.
