Isleta sketches

Mss.572.P25.1.No.25

Date: 1936-1941 | Size: 0.25 Linear feet, 189 items
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Abstract

189 original watercolor and ink drawings of pueblo activities drawn by Joe Bartolo Lente, a resident of Isleta Pueblo of New Mexico. In 1962, 140 of the paintings were published by the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology entitled Isleta Paintings.

Background note

Elsie Clews Parsons was a sociologist, anthropologist, and folklorist.

Collection Information

Physical description

189 items.

189 items.

Restrictions

Restrictions on Access:

All of the images in this collection have been designated as culturally sensitive or potentially culturally sensitive. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is restricted. Please consult the Manuscripts Department for more information.

Provenance

Presented by the Parsons family and accessioned, 1949.

Related material

See the Elsie Clews Parsons Papers, Ms. Coll. 29, for fuller description and other related materials.

Indexing Terms


Personal Name(s)

  • Lente, Joe Bartolo
  • Lente, Joe Bartolo
  • Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941
  • Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941

Subject(s)

  • Indians of North America -- New Mexico
  • Isleta Indians -- Art
  • Isleta Indians -- Social life and customs
  • Isleta paintings
  • Southwest Indians