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Lucy Martin Lewis, American, Acoma Pueblo (Aco-Mah), 1890 - 1992
Acoma Pueblo (Aco-Mah)
Southwest

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1930s-1940s

Terracotta with polychrome slip

Overall: 2 11/16 × 2 7/16 in. (6.9 × 6.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Alice Cox Collection, Class of 1939hW

177.9.25693

Geography

Place Made: Acoma Pueblo, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southwest

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed on bottom "Lucy M. Lewis Acoma"

Provenance

Collected by Alice Macy Ray Cox (1891-1975) (widow of Dartmouth English Professor Sidney Hayes Cox, 1889-1952), 1930s-1940s; given to her daughter, Barbara Alden Cox Vallarino (Mrs. Joaquin Jose Vallarino Jr., Dartmouth Class of 1943W); given to present collection, 1977.

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