- Artist:
- P'otsunu
- Title:
- Comanche dance
- Date Created:
- 1952
- Description:
- A painting of six dancers facing left. There are three male dancers and three female dancers, and they are arranged every other gender, starting with a man on the left. Two of the men are wearing war bonnets and the third is wearing a roach headdress. The women are dressed in the traditional Pueblo one-shoulder, handwoven dresses with handwoven sashes, each one a different color. The women are also wearing capes and they are carrying arrows in each hand. The man on the far left is carrying a staff, the man in the middle is carrying a rattle and the man on the right is carrying a musical pipe.
- Subjects:
- San Juan (Rio Grande Pueblo)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.182
- Size:
- image: 3/38 x 6 1/2 in.; framed: 7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.
- Frame:
- Bird's-eye maple
- Media:
- Tempera
- Signature:
- Potsunu '52 (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- undamaged; museum mounting
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow from the Dewey Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, February 13, 1992. On an old dust cover: "Mrs. Montoya by (Potsunu) 1952; Purchased: from Liane Adams, Santa Fe, NM April 1956." From the original backing: "D.L. Rust...; 'The Comanche Dance'; Geronima Montoya San Juan." On the back of the painting: "'The Comanche Dance.'" On the gallery card: "'Ceremonial Figures' Artist: Geronima Montoya, San Juan; Medium: watercolor; Size: 4" X 7"; Number: A1599-001; P...; Dewey Galleries, Ltd."
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Comanche dance", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.182.html
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