Sanmarcos

Sanmarcos

Isaac Baldeón (Ayacucho, Peru), Cajón San- marcos, or St. Mark Box, with the saints in the upper world (hanan pacha) and the villagers in the earthly world (kay pacha), ca. 1950. Wood, potato our, plaster, paint. 16 × 24 1⁄2 × 3 1⁄2 in. Gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, Museum of International Folk Art (A.1979.32.806). Photograph by Ernst Luthi.