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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2022 School for Advanced Research.

Gourd, painted (Decorative Arts Collection)

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2022 School for Advanced Research.

Gourd, painted (Decorative Arts Collection)

Date: 1988
Artist or Maker: Robert Rivera
Dimensions:
26.7 × 25.4 cm (10 1/2 × 10 in.)
Medium: gourd | paint | snakeskin | turquoise
Credit Line: Gift of Susan L. Q. Flaherty, in honor of Dora Tse Pe', potter of San Ildefonso.
Object Number: TIN.2020-3-68
On view at the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM
DescriptionPainted gourd decorated with a black turtle. Turtle has a circle of applied snakeskin and a turquoise cabochon in the center of its shell.
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