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Chief's Head Canoe
Sara Ayers (1919 – 2002)
Native American, Catawba
1989
Place of Creation: South Carolina, United States
Medium/Technique
Clay
Dimensions
Height x length: 14 × 33 × 10.2 cm (5 1/2 × 13 × 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 Number2021.793
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionA canoe form with humanoid heads wearing flared headdresses on either end. Smoke fired in a pit
Signed
Sara Ayers Catawba 1989
ProvenanceBy 1997/8, Arthur Greenberg, Rye, NH; 2021, sold by Greenberg to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)