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Snake bowl
Monty "Hawk" Branham (born in 1961)
Native American, Catawba
1997
Place of Creation: South Carolina, United States
Medium/Technique
Clay
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 13.3 × 21 cm (5 1/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the John Axelrod Collection, Gift of Bloomingdale's, H.E. Bolles Fund, Gift of Mrs F.O. North in memory of Thomas L. Sprague, Bequest of Charles Hitchcock Tyler, and Gift of S. Richard Fuller in memory of his wife, Luce Derby Fuller
Accession Number2021.791
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionA large round smoke decorated vessel with an undulating snake form on the surface. It is incised along the rim and on the body of the snake.
Signed
Eagle symbol
Catawba 7.9.97
Monty "Hawk" Branham
Unidentified symbol underneath signature
Catawba 7.9.97
Monty "Hawk" Branham
Unidentified symbol underneath signature
Provenance1997, sold by the artist to Arthur Greenberg Rye, NH; 2021, sold by Greenberg to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)