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Native NameOlla
Object Number:88-14-1
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Pueblo
Laguna
Provenience: New Mexico
Culture Area: Southwest Culture Area
Date Made: ca. 1880
Early Date: 1855
Late Date: 1905
Section:American
Materials:Clay
Height: 30 cm
Outside Diameter:35 cm
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. and Mrs. Frederick D. Hunt, 1988

Description

Polychrome with elaborate bird and heart motif. Four birds at top near rim. Alternating heart forms upside down and right side up with flower centers with leaves and hearts. broken and repaired with small section on loer bottom missing.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Preucel, Robert W., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Williams, Lucy F. 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 40-41View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 53, pl. 51View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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