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Wedding jar
Attributed to: SaraFina Gutierrez Tafoya (Ka-saweh or Autumn Leaf) (Kha-’Po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo), 1863–1949)
Native American, Kha-’Po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo)
about 1890
Object Place: Santa Clara, New Mexico, United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with polished slip
Dimensions
31.75 cm (12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Professor Emeritus F. H. Norton and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accession Number1971.567
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionDouble-spouted vessel with a flattened, bulbous body with impressed thumb prints around the center, forming a crimped effect; body branches into two, tall, flaring spouts connected by a handle; bottom portion of vessel below crimping is unglazed; top portion is glazed (or burnished) in deep red.
Provenance1971, gift of Frederick Harwood Norton (b. 1896 - d. 1987), Gloucester, MA, and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1971)
NOTE: Professor Norton formed the collection, which he housed at MIT before making the gift in 1971.
NOTE: Professor Norton formed the collection, which he housed at MIT before making the gift in 1971.