Detail View: Santo Collection:

Creator display: 
Sánchez, Charlie, Jr. (American santero, born 1947)
Creator role: 
creator
Date display: 
2012
Title: 
Cruz
Title: 
Cross
Title: 
Cruz de la Sagrada Concepcion
Title: 
Cross of the Holy Conception
Title: 
Santa Cruz
Title: 
Holy Cross
Description: 
Red wooden cross with an encrusted straw star design where the horizontal and vertical elements intersect, and a geometric zigzag pattern in straw from the central star to the four termini.
Inscription: 
on back: © "Cruz de la Sagrada Concepcion" / Charlie Sanchez, Jr. / Tome 2012 N.M.
Location name: 
Tome
Location name: 
New Mexico
Location name: 
Valencia (county)
Materials display: 
paint and straw inlay on wood (plant material)
Material name: 
paint
Material name: 
straw
Material name: 
wood (plant material)
Source name: 
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term: 
Holy Cross
Work type: 
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note: 
2013, Santa Fe: Spanish Market.
Accession number: 
RU0883
Measurements display: 
40.7 x 23 cm
Santo Subject: 
La Santa Cruz (The Holy Cross)
Santo Subject Type: 
Divine Subjects
Feast Day: 
Good Friday
Note: 
The cross shown without the body of Christ. It is often decorated with designs made of straw. Presumably the cross would have the same patronage as the crucifix.
Rights text: 
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED