Harry Fonseca

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Harry Fonseca is a California artist born in Sacramento, California in 1946, and is of Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, and Portuguese heritage. In his almost 20 year career as an exhibiting artist he has

Fonseca's earliest pieces drew from his Maidu heritage. He was influenced by basketry designs, dance regalia, and by his participation as a traditional dancer. Further, the creation myth of his people, as recounted by his uncle, Henry Azbill, became the source of a major 1977 work, Creation Story.

[edit] References

• Harry Fonseca's home page
• "A Time of Visions" -- an interview with Larry Abbott