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Object Number
995-29-10/73609
Display Title
Polychrome-on-white bowl: complex parrot and geometric motifs
Descriptions
Object Description
Polychrome-on-white bowl. Flat "flying saucer" shape with insloping sides and pronounced sharp shoulder. Undecorated bottom half with top half fully painted in black, red and mottled brown in four panels that repeat a,b,a,b, pattern with stylized parrot and generalized Hopi geometric motifs. Dimensions: 11.0 cm high x 30.9 cm max. dia.
* Signed on bottom, Stella Huma.
Inventory Description
Ceramic jar?, small flat base, disc-shaped in profile, constricted opening, painted white with polychrome geometric designs upper half of exterior
Classification
- Jar
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1970s-1980s
Artist
Stella Huma
Culture
- Tewa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms
First Mesa
Materials
Ceramic , Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 11 x 31.2 x 32 cm (4 5/16 x 12 5/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73609; POIKI / STELLA HUMA
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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