Costume des chefs indiens Appiacaz (Amazone) 1970

"Costume des chefs indiens Appiacaz (Amazone)" is a 1970 work by the Romanian artist Gherasim Luca. It is a collage consisting of a photograph of an indigenous man in traditional dress and various other images and text fragments pasted on top. The photograph depicts a native Amazonian chief wearing elaborate beadwork and feathered headdress and holding a spear, and is likely a studio portrait. This work is characteristic of Luca's artistic practice, which combined elements of Dada, Surrealism, and Pop Art, to explore themes of identity, culture, and the relationship between reality and representation.