Javelina

Date: 1988
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1997/1997.124.47_1a.jpg?itok=abbZckg9 width="334" height="223" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/javelina-36138"]] || Title: **Javelina**

Artist: **Leroy Archuleta** Born: Tesuque, New Mexico 1949 Died: Tesuque, New Mexico 2002

Medium: latex paint on cottonwood, bone, glass, and straw Dimensions: 25 x 44 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (63.5 x 113.1 x 26.1 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Accession: 1997.124.47 || Like his father, Felipe, Leroy Archuleta carves life-sized creatures with ferocious yet endearing faces. Both carve animals native to New Mexico, as well as beasts pictured in children's books and popular magazines such as National Geographic. Leroy notes that his carvings can always be distinguished from his father's: "I use sandpaper, for instance; he wouldn't take the time." In Javelina, he has incorporated bone and glass to enhance the realistic appearance of this wild boar.
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