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Olla (water jar)
Evelyn Ortiz (Native American, born in 1938)
Native American, Acoma Pueblo
1985
Place of Creation: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with slip paint
Dimensions
19.68 cm (7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Susan W. and Stephen D. Paine, and Jessie Lie Farber, and the Ladies Committee
Accession Number1985.138
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionPot with four panels of design which divide repeated abstractions of feathers, mesa steps, and perhaps, arrows, darts or bird imagery. Burnished with orange and black slip. Orange slip base with slight indentation on bottom.
Provenance1985, sold by the artist to Virginia Lewisohn Kahn, Cambridge, MA; 1985, sold by Virginia Kahn to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 25, 1985)