Touma (Singing)

Victor Masayesva Jr., artist

Cultural affiliations: Hopi

born 1951

Touma (Singing), 1996

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: silver-dye bleach print (Ilfochrome™)

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 50.5 x 61.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 3/4 x 24 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 28 x 32 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2002.0105

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum," 6-Sep-2003 to 19-Oct-2003, Andrea Norris
Masayesva was born on Third Mesa in Arizona and lives in Hotevilla, a Hopi village there that still resists having electricity. He graduated from Princeton University and works as a photographer and filmmaker at the same time he advocates for Hopi traditional religion and ways. This image of a Hopi kachina both suggests and hides its content, which is privileged to Hopi religious life.