DepartmentHispano

Our Lady of the Harvest

NameFigure

Artist or maker Marie Romero Cash (born 1942)

CultureHispana

Date1990

Place madeSanta Fe., New Mexico, United States, North America

MediumWood, gesso paint, tin, glass beads, metal beads

DimensionsOverall: 28 3/4 x 9 13/16 x 8 1/4 in. (73 x 25 x 21 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, gift of Sandy Besser, FA.2002.49.43

Object numberFA.2002.49.43

DescriptionStanding female figure dressed in green blouse and skirt back. Front of skirt is decorated with a large sun and moon face and multi-colored leaves flowers, and vines. Around her neck are a long glass bead necklace and crescent metal moon with a blue star on a metal bead chain and a scalloped painted locket with a cross Another painted black cross in on the center bottom edge of her skirt. She wears black boots with white laces and stands on a green-edged base with a brown top. On her head is a tin ray crown and in one of her outstretched arms is a basket containing multi-colored Indian corn, faded chiles and small pebbles for ballast.