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Kiln, Bowls, Baker's arm, and loaves
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Pueblo Bread Bakers
Kiln, Bowls, Baker's arm, and loaves
Joyce Sisneros Gallegos (Native American, born at Santa Clara Pueblo, in 1944)
Native American, Kha-’Po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo)
1984
Object Place: Santa Clara, New Mexico, United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. J. Wallace McMeel
Accession Number1984.776a-m
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
Descriptiona. Kiln, H: 5.75" W: 7.75" L: 9.375: Beehive shape kiln, w/ a door with rounded top and round vent hole, on a shaped platform. Incised on bottom: "Joyce / 9 / 84 / Sisneros / Gallegos / Santa Clara
b. Bowl, Diam: 2.125". Curved sides, flat bottom. Burnished black. Signed on bottom "JSG/1984/sc"
c. Bowl, Diam: 1.625" Curved sides, flat bottom. Swag decoration below rim in white and red on burnished tan.
d. Baker's arm, L: 6.875
e-m Nine clay loaves, each Diam: 1" Rounded clay loaves undecorated.
b. Bowl, Diam: 2.125". Curved sides, flat bottom. Burnished black. Signed on bottom "JSG/1984/sc"
c. Bowl, Diam: 1.625" Curved sides, flat bottom. Swag decoration below rim in white and red on burnished tan.
d. Baker's arm, L: 6.875
e-m Nine clay loaves, each Diam: 1" Rounded clay loaves undecorated.
Provenance1984, sold by the artist to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 19, 1984)