Jar

Museum number:
2-33018
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1294
Description:
Ceramic, flat base, sides incurving in upper area, polished red, carved water serpent design on natural ground. Molded. Signed "Severa" on base.
Donor:
Mrs. William Lippincott and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Santa Clara, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Santa Clara
Culture or time period:
Santa Clara
Maker or artist:
Severa Tafoya
Collector:
Mrs. William Lippincott
Collection date:
October 1959
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1959
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 14.5 centimeters and diameter 14.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: LeFree, Betty, "Santa Clara Pottery Today," University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1975, p. 84.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #59: University of California, Berkeley (April 11, 1980–April 25, 1980)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-33018, described as Ceramic, flat base, sides incurving in upper area, polished red, carved water serpent design on natural ground. Molded. Signed "Severa" on base.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-33018, described as Ceramic, flat base, sides incurving in upper area, polished red, carved water serpent design on natural ground. Molded. Signed "Severa" on base.

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