ID: 700009257 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009257	Record Type: Movable Work
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Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca (photograph; Graciela Iturbide (Mexican photographer and filmmaker, born ...; 1979; Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada); 1990.119.30)

Note: Black-and-white photograph depicting a Zapotec merchant who has live iguanas on her head like a headdress.

Titles:

Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined,U,U)

Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (C,U,AV,Spanish,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

photograph [300046300] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1979

Creator Display:

Graciela Iturbide (Mexican photographer and filmmaker, born 1942) [preferred]

photographer Iturbide, Graciela (Mexican photographer and filmmaker, born 1942) [500118440]

Locations:

Current: Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, Delaware county, New York state, United States) [500267611] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1990.119.30

Credit Line: Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer

Display Materials: gelatin silver photograph

	gelatin silver process [300139114]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: sheet: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm); image: 8 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches (22.2 x 15.6 cm)

Cultures:

Mexican (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	woman (female human) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	merchant [300025245]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in commerce and business>) (AAT)

	iguanas (genus) [300417846]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Reptilia (class), Squamata (order), Iguania (suborder), Iguanidae (family)) (AAT)

	Juchitán [1017664]
	.....(Oaxaca state (state), Mexico (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	Zapotec (culture or style) [300017179]
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Americas| The, Pre-Columbian (American), <Pre-Columbian Middle American styles and periods>, Mesoamerican, <Mesoamerican regional styles and periods>, Oaxacan, Oaxacan styles) (AAT)

	Blessed Virgin, Saint [901000032]
	.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Marks: Signed in pencil on lower right verso

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca	........ [VP]
	........ Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 06 April 2017
	........ Keller, Graciela Iturbide - Juchitán (2007) 4
	........ Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (2006) 809
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas	........ [VP]
	........ Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (2006) 809

....................... Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 06 April 2017

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Brooklyn Museum [online] (2009-) accessed 06 April 2017
	..... Keller, Graciela Iturbide - Juchitán (2007) 4