Vessel depicting the Water Spirit Avanyu
Severa Gutierrez Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo / American, 1890 - 1973
Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha P'o)
Southwest
about 1930-1950
Blackened terracotta
Overall: 4 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (12 × 20 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: The Alice Cox Collection, Class of 1939hW
177.9.25689
Geography
Place Made: Santa Clara Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
(not assigned)
Not on view
Inscriptions
Scratched on base: "Se...ra Santa Clara"
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
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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