"El Gran Poder de Dios" Niche
date: label: Date made
content: 1991
name: label: artist
content: Cash, Marie Romero
label: artist
content: Cash, Don
notes: label: Description
content: Drawing from New Mexico’s long history of Catholic religious imagery and combining it with the 20th century craft of tin metal work, artists and the faithful express their faith and identity numerous ways. This tin and wood niche or nicho is made in part for the tourist market and partially as cultural and religious affirmation. New Mexican artists Maria Romero Cash carves the wooden figures, and her husband Don Cash create the tin work.
label: Description
content: Language, culture, and religion have shaped the history and culture of the American Southwest. The interactions, confrontations, and co-existence between Zunis, Tiwa, Hopi, Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglos (just to name a few) have shaped ideas about ethnicity, family, language, traditions, and identity within the larger U.S. society.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: New Mexico
topic: label: Subject
content: Christianity
label: Subject
content: Catholic Church
label: Subject
content: Jesus Christ
label: Subject
content: Angels
label: Subject
content: Apostles
label: depicted
content: Gran Poder de Dios
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Religion
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content: Religion
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Morrison, Howard. American Encounters: A Companion to the Exhibition at the National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0770.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0770.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0770
objectType: label: Object Name
content: niche
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: roman catholicism (overall single or multi-hued)
label: Physical Description
content: carved (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 1/2 in x 17 5/8 in x 15 in; 95.25 cm x 44.7675 cm x 38.1 cm