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Clay effigy, polacca polychrome style--wugti, married woman.
Clay effigy, polacca polychrome style--wugti, married woman.
Object Number 45-25-10/28811
Display Title Clay effigy, polacca polychrome style--wugti, married woman.
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Wugti
Object Description Clay effigy, polacca polychrome style. Pottery figure, wugti, married woman (child is broken off from back)
Inventory Description Figurine, ceramic, woman carrying child, polychrome decoration, broken
Classification
  • Figurine
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Materials Ceramic, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 14 x 5.3 x 5.7 cm (5 1/2 x 2 1/16 x 2 1/4 in.) Distance (Width of Mother's head from chin to back of head): 2.26 cm Distance (Length of baby from head to bottom): 5.26 cm Distance (Width of dress below hands and baby): 4.36 cm Distance (Length of Mother's head from ear to ear): 4.15 cm Distance (Length of dress at botton band): 6 cm Distance (Width from Mother's hands to Baby's back): 5.7 cm Distance (Height from head to toe): 14 cm
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28811; 3501
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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