Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Research.
"Flight to Egypt"
Date: 1982
Artist or Maker: Stella Teller (b. 1929)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 19 × 11 × 18 cm (7 1/2 × 4 5/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Weight: 1 kg (2.3 lb.)
Medium: clay | turquoise | string, cotton
Credit Line: Bequeathed by Estelle Rebec; recieved at IARC in 2006.
Object Number: SAR.2007-1-474
Not on view
* Part of a set with Joseph figurine, SAR.2007-1-475. 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. The gray color on this figurine is an early example of Stella experimenting with white slip and cobalt powder to achieve a gray slip. All her animal figurines start from a tube and appendages are added later. The bodies of the donkey and the people in this piece are all hollow. Everything is built and added in steps which can take up to several months to complete. This figurine is a set, it goes with SAR.2007 1 475.
In Collection(s)
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