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Creator display:
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O'Rourke, Robert (American santero, born 1926)
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Creator note:
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American santero
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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acquired 2010
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Title:
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Angel de la Muerte
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Title:
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Angel of Death
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Description:
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Carved, skeletal figure seated on a stump, holding a bow and arrow, a hatchet under the figure's right foot and a sword next to the left.
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Location name:
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Fort Collins
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Location name:
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Colorado
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Materials display:
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carved wood (plant material)
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Material name:
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wood (plant material)
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Work type:
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bultos
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Work type:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Acquisition note:
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2010
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Accession number:
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RU0867
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Measurements display:
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70 x 25 x 36 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Doña Sebastiana, La Carreta, El Ángel de Muerte (The Death Cart)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Other Subjects
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Note:
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A reminder of death, not to be prayed to; used as a penitential instrument in Holy Week processions. All death carts date from after the middle of the nineteenth century. Arrows symbolize epidemic sickness (cf. Iliad I). Death may bear the name "Sebastiana" because St. Sebastian was martyred with arrows. An allegorical figure of death as a skeletal or corpselike woman with a bow and arrow or a club. Most often recognized as only a reminder, it was perhaps in some places superstitiously prayed to for longer life. Steele, "The Death Cart," Colorado Magazine 55 (1978), 1-14; Wroth, Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, pp. 149-59.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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