Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Research.
"Flight to Egypt"
Date: Early 1980s
Artist or Maker: Stella Teller (b. 1929)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 16.5 × 10 cm (6 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.)
Weight: 0.6 kg (1.25 lb.)
Medium: clay | wood | turquoise | string, cotton
Credit Line: Bequeathed by Estelle Rebec; recieved at IARC in 2006.
Object Number: SAR.2007-1-475
Not on view
* Part of a set with Mary, Baby Jesus, and donkey figurine, SAR.2007-1-474. They were not cataloged as a set, but are (they should have recieved AB numbers, but didn't.) They should be displayed together.
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"): The artist, Stella Teller, believes she made this in the early 1980s. This is a set with SAR.2007 1 474 (see that record for more information). The slip on the pants may have come from a separate batch than was used on the Mary figurine as it is slightly darker. The turquoise heishi necklace is from either San Felipe Pueblo or Santo Domingo Pueblo. The staff is a wooden stick, and the rope is cotton string.
In Collection(s)
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