Canteen
Canteen
Canteen
Canteen
Canteen
Canteen

Currently not on view

Princeton Collects

Canteen,

ca. 1970

Fannie Polacca Nampeyo, Hopi-Tewa, 1904–1987; born First Mesa, Hopitu Shi-nu-mu (Hopi), AZ
2023-173

Information

Title
Canteen
Dates

ca. 1970

Maker
Fannie Polacca Nampeyo
Medium
Ceramic with polychrome slip-paint and leather strips
Dimensions
19.2 × 15.4 × 12.1 cm (7 9/16 × 6 1/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jim Maddox, Class of 1965, and Lucy Maddox
Object Number
2023-173
Place Made

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

Signatures
Signed on the bottom: Fannie Nampeyo
Culture
Native American, Pueblo, Hopi
Type
vessels (containers), ceramics

Date uncertain, Four Winds Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, sold to Jim and Lucy Maddox, Chestertown, MD; August 8, 2023, donated to the Princeton University Art Museum.

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