Ceramic, oval shape with flat bottom, redware with red slip; cut-out circular anthropomorphic design on cream slip ground; burnishing of bowl is gone in design area. "Agapita Santa Clara Pueblo" scratched on bottom.
Donor:
Bertha Hammond
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:
Agapita Tafoya
Collector:
Bertha Hammond
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
August 25, 1985
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 12.5 centimeters and diameter 12 centimeters
Comment:
References: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, "Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery," University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1974, p. 50. LeFree, Betty, "Santa Clara Pottery Today," University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1975, plate 16.