Pot

Museum number:
2-71573
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071573
Accession number:
Acc.4611
Description:
Commercial low-fired undecorated greenware, globular with narrow mouth. Decoration is slip, pastel bands applied during rotation, feather design incised through color to slip. Interior is smooth pink-brown slip. Bottom incised "Carmen Billy Navajo". Paint (water base?).
Donor:
Frances J. Fischer
Collection place:
Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Santa Fe; Santa Fe
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Carmen Billy [Navajo]
Collector:
Frances J. Fischer
Collection date:
August 1993
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Accession date:
October 23, 1993
Context of use:
Made for the tourist trade.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
5.5 inches and diameter 17.1 centimeters
Comment:
This pattern of pot decoration originated in Rough Rock.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-71573, described as Commercial low-fired undecorated greenware, globular with narrow mouth. Decoration is slip, pastel bands applied during rotation, feather design incised through color to slip. Interior is smooth pink-brown slip. Bottom incised "Carmen Billy Navajo". Paint (water base?).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-71573, described as Commercial low-fired undecorated greenware, globular with narrow mouth. Decoration is slip, pastel bands applied during rotation, feather design incised through color to slip. Interior is smooth pink-brown slip. Bottom incised "Carmen Billy Navajo". Paint (water base?).

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