Patria (Tears of Our Mothers)

Maker Jose Ortiz Bracamonte

Date1997

MediumClay, pigment

Dimensions14 1/2” H x 10” Diam.

SignedBottom: “J. Ortiz B Nic 97” along with the title “Patria”

Credit LineGift of Carolynne Whitefeather

Object numberNLA2011.87.WHI

DescriptionTall jar with small mouth with rounded lip, containing two identical large images of a kneeling, weeping mother holding her deceased naked male child in one arm while extending the other. The woman’s head is at the center of a green cross in the background. She wears a red dress and cross around her neck. A broken yellow pot is on the lower right, a broken moon in the upper right, and a candelabra with three candles on the lower left. Green w/ blue-gray fields.

ClassificationsTextiles

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