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El Sueño (The Dream)

Maker Nicario Jimenéz Quispé

Date1994

MediumPigment, wood, potato, plaster

SignedNicario Jimenéz Q

Credit LineMuseum purchase; Funded by Sarah Lange ‘87 in honor of Ulysses and Iris Garcia, Trujillo, Peru

Object numberNLA1994.21.LANG

DescriptionRetablo titled El Sueño (The Dream). An Andean woman falls asleep at the mouth of a cave with her two children at her side. She dreams of her husband who has disappeared. Was he imprisoned by the military? Was he killed by guerrillas, or by security forces? If so, she dreams, an angel is guiding his spirit to heaven. Although this is a Catholic heaven, there are also symbols of the Andean deity Wamani, and the Sun, Moon, and Condor. See remarks below.

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Longyear Museum of Anthropology Collections

Exhibitions

Makers and Materials of the Americas

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