Jar

© Iris Youvella Nampeyo

Jar

On view

Native North American Art
Princeton Collects

Jar,

ca. 2015

Iris Youvella Nampeyo, Hopi-Tewa, 1944–2018; born Hopituh Shi-nu-mu (Hopi) Pueblo, AZ
2021-150

Information

Title
Jar
Dates

ca. 2015

Maker
Iris Youvella Nampeyo
Medium
Tan ceramic
Dimensions
h. 9.4 × diam. 15.2 cm (3 11/16 × 6 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jim Maddox, Class of 1965, and Lucy Maddox
Object Number
2021-150
Place Made

North America, United States, Arizona, Hopi Reservation

Signatures
Signed on base with corn husk potter's mark: Iris Nampeyo
Inscription
below signature: 1612-069
Culture
Pueblo, Hopi, Native American
Type
ceramics, vessels (containers)
Materials
ceramic

[King Galleries, Santa Fe (NM), by January 2019]; purchased by Jim Maddox, January 2019; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by Jim Maddox and Lucy Maddox, 2021.

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