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