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

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ClassificationsCeramics

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Americas

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.