Ceramic, seated figure holding a bowl on lap. Cream colored slip over-all. Multi-colored designs on forehead, cheeks, chest and on bowl. "Hopi" written in pencil on base. Molded, painted, poster paints.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Tesuque Pueblo, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Santa Fe; Tesuque
Culture or time period:
Tesuque
Collector:
Capital Life Insurance Company list
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Figurines
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Rain God
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: Tanner, Clara Lee. "Southwest Indian Craft Arts", University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1968, p. 166, figure 6.13.