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Object Number:99-9-6
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Hopi
Tewa (Culture)
Zuni
Provenience: Hopi Pueblo
Culture Area: Southwest Culture Area
Maker: Les Namingha
Date Made: 1990's
Early Date: 1990
Late Date: 1999
Section:American
Materials:Clay
Paint
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 28 cm
Credit Line:Museum purchase, 1999

Description

Polychrome jar with abstract design. Wide flat bowl tapering to narrow base. Base color is creamy peach; terracotta swirls on lower portion of base. Flat bowl design - brown swirls, scattered amorphic shapes of terracotta, brown dotted background. Titled: "Off Course" Signed on bottom by maker - Les Namingha.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

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

Bibliography:

[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. 58, pl. 59; back coverView Objects related to this Actual Citation

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