Figure 30. Religious Prints in Tin Frames. Size: 52.1 

 centimeters high (center). Date: Fint three-quarters of 19th 

 century. Origin: Prints imported to New Mexico; frames 

 from New Mexico, unidentified tinsmiths. Location : East 

 morada, walls in chapel (west) room. Manufacture: Tin 

 frames: cut, repousse, stamped and soldered into Federal 

 and Victorian designs. Prints: left, Guadalupe, early 19th 

 century, Mexican copperplate engraving; center, Guadalupe, 

 1847, N. Currier, hand-colored lithograph; right, San 

 Gregorio [Pope St, Gregory], mid-i9th-century lithograph. 



Figure 31. Niche with Image of the Holy Child of 

 Atocha {nicho and El Santo Nino de Atocha). Size: 

 niche 44.4 centimeters high, image 21.6 high. Date: Second 

 half of 19th century. Origin: New Mexico, unidentified tin- 

 smith and Santera. Location: East morada, wall in chapel 

 room. Manufacture: Tin: cut, repousse, soldered into fan, 

 shell, and guilloche designs. Image: carved wood, gessoed and 

 painted red and white. Rosary and artificial flowers. 



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