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This is a work featured on the Amero website, called Burden, date listed is 1930s. This concept of the burden bearer appears repeatedly throughout the work of Latin American artists. The image became a rather controversial one to many in the first half of the twentieth century. Artists like Siqueiros and Orozco were quite vocal with their disdain of this portrayal of the indigenous population. Many artists also embraced images like these as a return to nationalism and celebration of their roots. Given the time period, easel works like this one were surely owned by the Bourgeois, and we have to wonder what their view of these barefoot individuals would have been.