Vase
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Vase
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On view

Native North American Art
Princeton Collects

Vase,

ca. 2000

Sak’Honsee (Tobacco Flower Girl, Jean Sahme Nampeyo), Hopi-Tewa, born 1948, Polacca, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu (Hopi) Pueblo, AZ
2021-139

Information

Title
Vase
Dates

ca. 2000

Maker
Sak’Honsee (Tobacco Flower Girl, Jean Sahme Nampeyo)
Medium
Ceramic with black and red slip-paint
Dimensions
h. 25.4 × diam. 11 cm (10 × 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jim Maddox, Class of 1965, and Lucy Maddox
Object Number
2021-139
Place Made

North America, United States, Arizona, Polacca, Hopi Reservation, First Mesa

Signatures
Signed with corn glyph on base: Sak'Honsee
Culture
Native American, Pueblo, Hopi
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)
Materials
ceramic, pigment

Purchased by Jim Maddox from an eBay auction, 2019; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by Jim Maddox and Lucy Maddox, 2021.

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