Painting : 2016.71.14

Title:

TE WANGIENEMA, HOPI

Artist:

Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)

Medium:

Watercolor/Gouache

Date:

1910

Source:

Nippert Collection of Joseph Scheuerle Portraits, donated by Alfred K., Jr. and Kathye H. Nippert

Object ID:

2016.71.14

Description:

Scheuerle wrote on the back, 'Mrs. Vivian Gawanusea is a good friend - and is writing very interesting letters. I send her 'Sunday Comics' which she tells me the family enjoy - After a bad winter, and an epidemic of Flu she writes: - "all the old people die, but now they're all well' I suppose she means the ones that did not die - Here we have her 'maiden name' 'Te Wangienema' - which means 'Sand' also her Christian name of "Vivian" attached to her marriage name 'Gawanusea'".

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Painting, Te Wangienema, Hopi, 2016.71.14 (front)

Painting, Te Wangienema, Hopi, 2016.71.14 (back)