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Object Number 2004.29.4507
Display Title Navajo woman rolling a fillet of paste
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Tschopik - Navaho Pottery Making; Pl. VI; IIIb; a; Construction and drying (32). a, rolling fillet of paste b, vessels drying by fire-pit. / [verso] Gift of Lucy Kluckhohn, Sept 1964."
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • pottery making
Department Photographic
Date 1900-1950
Artist Mr. Harry Tschopik, Jr.
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Utah?
North America / United States / New Mexico?
North America / United States / Arizona?
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 15.24 cm (4 x 6 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Lucy Kluckhohn

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Navajo woman rolling a fillet of paste to make a pot
2004.29.4571 Navajo woman rolling a fillet of paste to make a pot
New Mexico?
Arizona?
Utah?
Vessels drying by fire pit
2004.29.4508 Vessels drying by fire pit
Arizona?
Utah?
New Mexico?
Tschopik pottery making. Adding fillet to the base
2004.29.4572 Tschopik pottery making. Adding fillet to the base
New Mexico?
Arizona?
Utah?
Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
2004.29.4567 Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Utah?
Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
2004.29.4569 Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
Utah?
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
2004.29.4568 Navajo woman obliterating fillet juncture on a pot
New Mexico?
Arizona?
Utah?
Navajo woman scraping a pot with a corncob
2004.29.4570 Navajo woman scraping a pot with a corncob
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Utah?
Navajo woman kneading the paste to make pottery
2004.29.4566 Navajo woman kneading the paste to make pottery
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Utah?
Navajo woman preparing paste, grinding the clay
2004.29.4565 Navajo woman preparing paste, grinding the clay
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Utah?
Navajo woman smoothing the rim on a pot
2004.29.4574 Navajo woman smoothing the rim on a pot
New Mexico?
Arizona?
Utah?
Navajo woman modeling the base of a pot
2004.29.4573 Navajo woman modeling the base of a pot
Utah?
Arizona?
New Mexico?
Navajo woman building an oven over the vessels
2004.29.4504 Navajo woman building an oven over the vessels
New Mexico?
Utah?
Arizona?