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Wedding jar
Wedding jar

Wedding jar

SaraFina Gutierrez Tafoya (Ka-saweh or Autumn Leaf) (Kha-’Po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo), 1863–1949)
about 1890
Object PlaceSanta Clara, New Mexico, United States
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with polished slip
Dimensions31.75 cm (12 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus F. H. Norton and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Accession number1971.567
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Provenance1971, gift of Frederick Harwood Norton (b. 1896 - d. 1987), Gloucester, MA, and the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 10, 1971)

NOTE: Professor Norton formed the collection, which he housed at MIT before making the gift in 1971.
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1991
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1992
Restricted: For reference only
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1993