Harry Fonseca’s Coyote in Front of Studio satirizes the enduring “real Indian” stereotype through a playful reimagining of the cigar store Indian. Coyote, the trickster, stands on a wooden crate outside the artist’s Albuquerque studio, door marked 1035, wearing 1980s jeans and sneakers, mirrored sunglasses, and a glittering feather headdress. In his hands he holds a bag of marijuana and a fistful of joints, merging sacred symbolism with modern subversion. Fonseca’s lively brushwork, glitter, and reflective surfaces give the painting a vibrant, irreverent energy that draws the viewer in before revealing its deeper critique: the persistent commodification of Native identity, the humor and adaptability of the trickster, and the tension between cultural myth and lived reality.