Ceramic Bowl / Legoria Tafoya
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1984/2.17
- Title
- Ceramic Bowl
- Artist
- Legoria Tafoya
- Artist Nationality
- Native American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1911 - 1984
- Medium and Support
- blackware
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1950
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- New Mexico (state)
- Rio Arriba County
- Santa Clara Pueblo
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- New Mexico (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Rio Arriba County
- Creation Place 5
- Santa Clara Pueblo
- Dimensions
- 7.7 cm x 10.6 cm x 10.6 cm (3 1/16 in. x 4 3/16 in. x 4 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- bowl
- Physical Description
- A deep bowl with a wide mouth made of black earthenware. The upper half of the bowl is decorated with a horizontal and diagonal design in a lighter shade of black and rougher texture than the smooth black surface.
- Subject Matter
- A beautiful, functional object made by an award-winning artist from the Santa Clara Pueblo people.
- Primary Keywords
- applied decoration
- bowl
- bowls (vessels)
- earthenware
- pueblo
- southwestern native american styles
- vessels
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- modern and contemporary art
- native american
- native north american styles
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- pottery (object genre)
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 741 x 683
- File Size
- 30 KB
- Record
- 1984/2.17
- Link to this Item
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"Ceramic Bowl; Legoria Tafoya." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1984-sl-2.17/1984_2.17.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.