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Artist/Maker
Cara Romero
(Chemehuevi, born 1977)
Date2017
MediumArchival pigment print
DimensionsImage: 46 3/4 × 40 in. (118.7 × 101.6 cm)
Sheet: 50 5/8 × 43 15/16 in. (128.6 × 111.6 cm)
Frame: 51 1/2 × 44 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (130.8 × 113 × 6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2021.7.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis photograph is part of Cara Romero’s ongoing First American Girl series, which depicts named Indigenous women in life-size doll boxes, and is intended to act as a corrective to past misrepresentations of Native women. Romero works collaboratively with each sitter to determine how they will be represented. The resulting photographs celebrate the resilience and individuality of each woman, who is shown with items specific to her bioregion and everyday life—rooted in tradition yet very much of the modern world.
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Additional Details
Provenance
2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Bockley Gallery.
Signature
Signed "Cara Romero" at bottom right in ink.
Inscribed
"9/12" at lower left in ink;
"Naomi" at lower center in ink.
"Naomi" at lower center in ink.
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