[Human sacrifice before Tohil]
LC Control No.: |
2008700225
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Type of Material: | Photograph, Print, Drawing |
Personal Name: | Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957. |
Main Title: |
[Human sacrifice before Tohil]
[graphic] /
D Rivera [partial monogram].
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Published/Created: |
[1931]
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Related Names: |
Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
DLC
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Description: |
1 painting :
watercolor ;
31 x 48 cm.
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Notes: |
Title from Kislak Collection guide.
Watercolor painted by Diego Rivera in San Francisco, Calif. during the summer of 1931, originally commissioned to illustrate a never-published English translation of the Popol Vuh by John Weatherwax. Depicts the first humans making sacrifices to the god Tohil. underworld. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. DLC |
Additional Formats: |
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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Subjects: |
Popol vuh--Illustrations. Quiché mythology. Quiché Indians--Religion. Myths--1930-1940. Sacrifices--1930-1940. |
Form/Genre: |
Watercolors--1930-1940. |
LC Classification: |
N8214.5.A45
C65 1750
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Links: |
Page view:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/kislak.00225.1
PDF: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/kislak.00225.2 |