Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving animal painting as part of a head-to-toe

as part of a head-to-toe ensemble that perhaps also included a perfectly tailored suit

) sculpted in relief

along the seam

with what appears to read Nak-Nik (or possibly Mak-Mik

as the lid sits at just the slightest bit off square (maybe 1-2 degrees)

Olin Dows "Washing Women" Taxco, Mexico, 1933 Wood Engraving animal painting as part of a head-to-toeThis striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904 1981) titled Women Washing (Taxco) is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling through Mexico and Central America in the 1930s. As with many of his works in this series, the figures are anonymous, their faces veiled (I assume these women are nuns), suggesting multitudes of such women, engaged in similarly laborious tasks, and also imparting a sense of reverence toward them. Through