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Bowl

Date: 2001

Artist or Maker: Stella Teller (b. 1929)

Dimensions:

Dimensions: 15.2 × 29.2 cm (6 × 11 1/2 in.)

Weight: 1.8 kg (3.95 lb.)

Medium: clay | paints

Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2001.

Object Number: SAR.2001-15-1

Not on view

DescriptionA high-shouldered bowl, divided decoratively into two zones. The lower zone, three inches high, is plain white and highly polished (as are all the white areas of the bowl). The upper zone, approximately two inches wide, has a geometric design of angular shapes, cross-hatching, and a few curvilinear shapes painted with brown, tan, and terra cotta colored slips. This design appears twice on either side of two three-dimensional turtles that have been added to the shoulder and divide the circumference in half. The turtles are detailed in the above-described slips. The rim of the bowl is brown slipped; its interior is slipped tan.The bowl is thin walled and delicate in proportion, design, and color-a hallmark of the artist's current style.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Isleta collection review visit May 2 3, 2022 (Events Record “Collection Review: Isleta Collection Review 2"): This is an effigy pot. The turtles are not solid pieces their bodies' are hollow. The peach colored slip is a combination of the clay used to build the bowl and a small amount of red clay slip. The brown pigment is from a paint rock.

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