Creation Story
Object Details
- Culture/People
- Maidu
- Artist/Maker
- Harry Fonseca, Maidu/Native Hawaiian, 1946-2006
- Seller
- Harry Fonseca, Maidu/Native Hawaiian, 1946-2006
- Presenter/funding source
- George Wessler, Non-Indian, 1917-2012
- Peggy Wessler (Peggy Marie Wessler), Non-Indian
- Collection History
- NMAI purchase from the artist in 2004 using funds donated by George Wessler (1917-2012) and Peggy Wessler.
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- Date created
- 2000
- Catalog Number
- 26/5007
- Barcode
- 265007.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Creation Story
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Cotton canvas, acrylic paint
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 525 x 194 cm
- Place
- Santa Fe; Santa Fe County; New Mexico; USA
- See related items
- Maidu
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_281200
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6ea0e3827-13c1-4845-809a-c4eae18b6701
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