Exchange: North American indigenous art in open storage

North American indigenous art in open storage

Inuit
Mother and Child
stone
5 3/8 in. x 4 1/4 in. x 5 3/16 in. ( 13.7 cm x 10.8 cm x 13.2 cm )
Gift of Eskimo Art, Inc., through Mr. Eugene B. Power (Trustee)

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This is a wide-bellied, small pot with slightly concave shoulders. The pot's mouth is slighlty wider than the foot. A black pattern is painted on a white surface: this complex, linear design starts with a very small triangular path and winds around itself again and again like a maze. Mazes meet to form eight-pointed intersecting star pattern.

Lucy Martin Lewis
Miniature Olla
white slip and mineral paints on clay
4 1/8 in (10.5 cm)
Anonymous Gift

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This mug-sized vessel has a bulbous body, a narrower tall neck, and handle. It is beige with black painted geometric and striped design.

Pueblo
Red Mesa Black-on-White Bird Effigy Vessel
mineral paint on earthenware
3 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 11/16 in (9.37 cm x 6.35 cm x 9.37 cm)
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev

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Light brown ceramic rectangular tile with a human-esque figure on the front in darker brown and red. Small hole pierced at the top and the bottom edges.

Artist Unknown; Hopi
Tile with One-Legged Katsina
colored slip on earthenware
6 3/16 x 4 1/8 x 7/16 in. (15.6 x 10.4 x 1 cm)
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev

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Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.

Hopi
Bowl With Impression of Basket Puki
earthernware
3 1/4 in (8.25 cm)
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev

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Terracotta bottle with a bulbous belly and a long cylindrical neck. Black ash firing finish on entire bottle with ethched geometric design on belly.

Caddo; Mississippian
Ceremonial Tall Necked Bottle
black ash firing finish on terracotta
6 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in (15.56 cm x 10.8 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Cyllindrical metal container decorated with glass seed beeds: white ground with blue stripes and diamonds, red X's, and concentric circles.

Lakota; Assiniboin
Beaded Storage Tin
glass beads and thread on metal container
3 7/8 in (9.8 cm)
Gift of the Honorable Jack Faxon

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A nearly cylindrical, dark gray and brown earthenware pot, with somewhat larger diameter at top than bottom and small, knob-like handles on either side near the top. Decorated wtih a line of small circular indentations around the upper portion, in line with the handles. Coarse linear imprints cover the entirety of the pot.

Diné (Navajo)
Navajo Gray Ware Cooking Pot
earthenware
5 15/16 in x 8 11/16 in x 7 1/2 in (15.08 cm x 22.07 cm x 19.05 cm)
Gift of Estelle Titiev, from the collection of Mischa Titiev

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Bulbous bowl in dark and light browns on the outside, black interior. Patterns of scrolls, circles, and dots around the exterior.

Caddo; Mississippian
Ceremonial Hodges Engraved Style Bowl
terracotta with black ash firing finish and etched design
3 15/16 in (10 cm)
Museum Purchase

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