Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.
Figurine, roadrunner
Date: before 1992
Artist or Maker: Lucy Martin Lewis (1898 - 1992)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 3.1 × 7.4 × 2 cm (1 1/4 × 2 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Weight: 15.88 g (0.56 oz.)
Medium: clay | paints
Credit Line: Bequest of Helenn J. Rumpel; received at IARC in 2015.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.2015-2-21
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit February 17-19, 2016 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 5”): The participants did confirm this is a roadrunner. Lucy Lewis and her daughter Dolores Lewis Garcia aare from the Roadrunner clan. Nothing more was said about this piece.
In Collection(s)
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