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Object Number 995-29-10/73573
Display Title Buff-on-red bowl: avanyu motif
Descriptions
Object Description Buff-on-red globular bowl with widest diameter at center. Undecorated bottom half with buff background painted from widest diameter to rim to produce an avanyu (feathered serpent). Dimensions: 8.6 cm high x 16.1 cm max. dia. * Signed on bottom, Blue Corn San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Inventory Description Ceramic bowl, flat base with rounded body and no neck or rim, exterior painted red and polished, with a band of a painted zoomorph design around top tan in color
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Date 1970-1979
Artist Blue Corn
Culture
  • San Ildefonso
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Dimensions Overall: 9 x 16 cm, 15 7/8 in. (3 9/16 x 6 5/16 in., 40.3861 cm)
Quantity 1
Label on object Blue Corn / San Ildefonso / Pueblo; 995-29-10/73573
Provenance
Collector Dr. William R. Wright (1995)
Donor Dr. William R. Wright (1995)

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