MS 7429 Spotted Pumpkin Dance
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7429

NAA INV 10000087
name: label: Artist
content: Peña, Jose Encarnacion (Soqween), San Ildenfso Pueblo, 1902-1979
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Peña, Jose Encarnacion (Soqween), San Ildenfso Pueblo, 1902-1979
culture: label: Culture
content: San Ildefonso Pueblo
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jose Encarnacion Peña, also known as Encarnacion Peña, Soqween, and So-Kwa-Wi (1902–1979), was a painter from San Ildefonso Pueblo.  Best known for his watercolors of Pueblo ceremonies, he was an early participant in the San Ildefonso school and later in the "Santa Fe Studio Style" art movement.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (watercolor on board, 30 x 17.25 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979
container: label: Container
content: Folder 7429
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The provenance of the painting is unclear.  It may have been donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Stephen Gambaro or by Peña's widow, Patricia Peña.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7429
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Watercolors
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a watercolor painting depicting six dancers in a row.  The painting is titled, signed and dated by the artist: "Spotted Pumpkin Dance. Soka-awh. 1979. Encarnacion Peña. Santa Fe, N. Mex." The painting was shown at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the show Shadows Caught: Images of Native Americans, curated by Stephen Gambaro, February 6-April 22, 1984.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) holds photographs of Peña in Patricia Peña photograph of Jose Encarnacion Peña dressed as koshari (Photo Lot 79-30) and Stephen Gambaro photographs of Native American artists and public figures, circa 1976-1984 (Photo Lot 80-37).  The NAA holds images of Peña's murals in Photographs of Jose Encarnacion Peña murals and Patricia Peña dolls (Photo Lot 98-24).