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Male and Female Pair of Cochiti Pueblo Squash Dancers by Quah Ah - C3868L
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Tue, Jan 24th 2017, 11:02am
A few of Tonita Vigil Peña (1893-1949) Quah Ah's works, painted in 1922 and 1923, were signed:
Tonita P. Arquero
as on this Male and Female Pair of Cochiti Pueblo Squash Dancers, in honor of her husband, Epitacio Arquero. This signature is quite rare.
Tonita Peña labeled each of these paintings on verso Cochiti Pueblo Squash Dance $5.00. Whether the Squash Dance is still being performed a hundred years after these paintings were completed is not publicly known.