COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0008262
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aahi0008262
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Work Title (display):
Segesser II
Image Title:
full view, grayscale image
Work Description:
On display in the Palace of the Governors, the Segesser Hides are a jewel of New Mexico's museum collections and bear the first known depictions of Spanish colonial life in the United States. The hides illustrate an ambush in present-day Nebraska of a 1720 expedition led by the then-Lt. Governor of New Mexico. Painted on animal hide, likely bison, they are believed to have been created in New Mexico, where imported canvas was rare. The hides found their way back to the Southwestand eventually to the Palacemore than 200 years after Philipp von Segesser von Brunegg, a Jesuit priest, sent them to his family in Switzerland in 1758. It is believed that he acquired them in Sonora, Mexico, between 1732 and 1758, from the Anzas, a family that was prominent in military and civil affairs in both New Mexico and the Sonoran village where Father Segesser's mission was situated. (http://media.museumofnewmexico.org/mediabank.php?mode=events&action=detail&fileID=154&eventID=37&instID=19) The creator of the two Segesser Hides was likely an indigenous person from the southwestern region of the present-day USA, or perhaps of mixed heritage, who was familiar with the image-making traditions from centrail Mexico that were brought to New Spain.
Work Dates (display):
ca. 1720 (?)
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-06-06
Work Creator (display):
unknown Native American
Work Creator gender:
unknown
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unknown
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
Typically refers to the culture of the aboriginal peoples of the western hemisphere, particularly the native peoples of North America, excluding the Eskimos and Aleuts. It may also be used more broadly to refer to the culture of any native peoples of North America, Central America, South America, or the West Indies who are considered to belong to the Mongoloid division of the human species. In usage in the United States, the term "Amerindian" is often used for this broader meaning, with "Native American" reserved for the cultures of the native peoples of the United States and Canada, excluding the Eskimos and Aleuts. Indigenous peoples of Canada use the term "First Nations" to refer to their own communities; they often use it in a broader sense to refer to all indigenous peoples of the Americas. (AAT)
Work Style Period:
Colonial Spanish American
work_styleperiod
Colonial Spanish American
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
18th century
work_styleperiod
18th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
Oto Indians
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Oto Indians
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Pawnee People
subject
Pawnee People
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Great Plains
subject
Great Plains
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
hybridity
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hybridity
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Indigenous peoples
subject
Indigenous peoples
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
narrative (artistic device)
subject
narrative (artistic device)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
battles
subject
battles
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
French (French people)
subject
French (French people)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
violence
subject
violence
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Spaniards
subject
Spaniards
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
history (discipline)
subject
history (discipline)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Native Americans
subject
Native Americans
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
history paintings
subject
history paintings
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
work_type
paintings (visual works)
Work Worktype
false
Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
paint on hide
Work Measurements (display):
4 ft 6 in (H) x 19 ft (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of New Mexico
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 1st ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2002. Print.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 1st ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2002. Print.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-5000-58334-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
37
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
1.34
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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