Burnished Black Jar with Avanyu / Water Serpent Design
Crescencia Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo / American,1918 - 1999
Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha P'o)
Southwest
collected 1956
Terracotta and white slip
Overall: 4 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (10.3 × 7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
56.52.13673
Geography
Place Made: Santa Clara 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: "Cresencia, Santa Clara Pueblo"
Provenance
Purchased from Arthur Rogers, The Wooden Indian, Embudo, New Mexico by Robert Chaffee for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1956.
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