Death Head Palma

© Estate of Douglas Kent Hall

Death Head Palma

Currently not on view

Death Head Palma,

1980–82

Douglas Kent Hall, American, 1938–2008
2012-105

Information

Title
Death Head Palma
Dates

1980–82

Maker
Douglas Kent Hall
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 45.9 x 30.9 cm. (18 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.) sheet: 50.5 x 40.4 cm. (19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alfred L. Bush
Object Number
2012-105
Place Depicted

North America, United States, New Mexico, La Villita

Signatures
Signed in graphite on verso, lower right
Inscription
Titled in graphite on verso, lower left: Death Head Palma
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp with address on verso, lower right
Culture
American
Period
Southwestern Native American styles
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
flowers (plants), deaths, rituals (events), portraits, cactus and succulents, religions (belief systems, cultures), masks (costume), figures (representations)

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