Small Seed Jar
Fannie Nampeyo, Hopi / American, about 1902 - 1987
Hopi
Southwest
1964
Terracotta, yellow slip, and black and red pigment
Overall: 4 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (11.5 × 7.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
164.42.15514
Geography
Place Made: Hano Pueblo, First Mesa, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed: Fannie Nampeyo
Exhibition History
Ancient Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-February 9, 1992.
Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.
Publication History
[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 41. (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Provenance
Trading Post, Polacca, Arizona; sold to Alfred Frank Whiting (1912-1978) for Dartmouth College Museum, 1964.
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