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Tesuque Pueblo painter
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1917(Pueblo of Tesuque, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA)
Death:
January 1971
Family:
Father:
Julio Abeyta
Siblings:
Crucita Abeyta
The details
Biography
Augustine Abeyta (c. 1914–1971) was a Puebloan-American painter from Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico. In October 1937, his work was exhibited at the American Indian Exposition and Congress in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Abeyta was the son of Julio Abeyta, a silversmith and one-time governor of Tesuque Pueblo, and the brother of Crucita Abeyta, a potter known for her jars and bowls.