Blackware Plate and Miniature Blackware Canteen
Shirley (Cactus Blossom) Tafoya, American, Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha P'o), 1947 - 2010
Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha P'o)
About 2000
Blackened terracotta
Plate: 1 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (2.5 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm)
Other: 6.4 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Lorlee and Arnold Tenenbaum Family
2022.71.9
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th-21st century
Object Name
Plate, Canteen
Research Area
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on bottom of plate, in graphite: Shirley Cactus Blossom Tafoya
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