Nicaraguan Pottery Designs by David Sequeira - Dates: December
1, 1939 through February 4, 1940 - Collections: Arts of the
Americas December 1, 1939: Eighty large color drawings by David
Sequeira from Chorotegan pottery excavated by him in Nicaragua
will be shown at the Brooklyn Museum from December 1 through
February 4 in an exhibition arranged by Fr. Herbert J. Spinden,
Curator of American Indian Art and Primitive Cultures. Sequira
is of Nicaraguan birth and primarily a musican whose interest in
musical themes of the Indians induced him to study and reproduce
the brilliant designs on the pre-Colombian pottery of Nicaragua
identified by Dr. Spinden as superb examples of Chorotegan art.
The drawings are circular and rectangular and will be shown in
panels. The designs are in strong, warm colors, brick red,
reddish brown, black and white, The artist has, in effect,
transferred the patterns from concave and convex pottery
surfaces to flat surfaces The patterns incorporate motives of
conventionalized jaguars, cr