Story teller figure

Museum number:
2-72158
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
38c (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4765
Description:
ceramic story teller figure; seated woman with short legs spread wide. Holds 6 babies each holding a piece of pottery (jar, plate, wedding vase, etc.) in her encircling arms and a boy baby sits on each leg holding a drum. Skin is cream slip, hair, clothing and pots/drums painted with brown and red slip. Story teller has oval, open mouth and closed, lidded eyes, pinched nose. Boys wear a tied headband; girls without head decorations. Story teller has a topknot with a decorated headband across it and a cape decorated with a corn plant on her back. Mary E. Toya, potter.
Donor:
Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene
Collection place:
Jemez, Sandoval County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
North America, United States, New Mexico, Jemez Pueblo
Culture or time period:
Jemez
Collector:
Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene
Materials:
Clay
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones)
Accession date:
June 25, 2008
Context of use:
made for tourist or collector trade.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Story teller figure, accession number 2-72158, described as ceramic story teller figure; seated woman with short legs spread wide. Holds 6 babies each holding a piece of pottery (jar, plate, wedding vase, etc.) in her encircling arms and a boy baby sits on each leg holding a drum. Skin is cream slip, hair, clothing and pots/drums painted with brown and red slip. Story teller has oval, open mouth and closed, lidded eyes, pinched nose. Boys wear a tied headband; girls without head decorations. Story teller has a topknot with a decorated headband across it and a cape decorated with a corn plant on her back. Mary E. Toya, potter.

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