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Maker(s):Unidentified maker
Culture:Indigenous; Native American; Tesuque or Jemez
Title:jar
Date Made:n.d.
Type:Container; Ceramic
Materials:Ceramic; clay and pigment, coil-built pot
Place Made:New Mexico
Measurements:overall: 2 7/16 in x 3 1/2 in; 6.19125 cm x 8.89 cm
Accession Number:  UM 1970.265
Credit Line:Leonard D. Hollister Collection of Southwest Native American Pottery, purchase with funds from a Fine Arts Council Grant
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

Description:
Poster paint ware, pinched clay bodyslipped in red, fired, then painted with bright analine colors; shaped as a bowl, or perhaps ashtray. Poor quality produced in quantity, for tourist trade only. (Harlow and Young, 'Contemporary Pueblom Indian Potter', Museum of New Mexico, 1965)

Tags:
indigenous people; pottery; decoration and ornament; design; Native American; pottery; stylization

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