Isleta sketches

Culture:
Isleta includes: Tiwa
Language: English
Date: 1936-1941
Contributor: Lente, Joe B. (Joe Bartolo) | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Subject: Anthropology | Ethnography | Art | Social life and customs | New Mexico--History
Type: Still Image
Genre: Watercolors | Drawings
Extent: .25 linear feet; 189 items
Description: These 189 original watercolor and ink drawings of pueblo activities were drawn by Joe Bartolo Lente, of Isleta Pueblo of New Mexico. The drawings were commissioned by Elsie Clews Parsons, a sociologist, anthropologist, and folklorist. In 1962, 140 of the paintings were published in "Isleta Paintings" by the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. This collection was been designated as culturally sensitive and restricted. These materials were formally deaccessioned and removed from the collections in December 2023.
Collection: Isleta sketches Mss.572.P25.1.No.25