About the Artwork
Olla
between 900 and 1200
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Native american
Anasazi
Clay painted with slip and pigment
Overall: 13 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (34.3 × 31.1 cm)
Ceramics
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council and Acquisitions Fund
79.167
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
1975, found by Mike Porter (near Grants, New Mexico, USA), probably on his ranch
December 1975, purchased by Eula Edwards (Southwestern Artifact Museum, San Jon, New Mexico, USA)
1977, purchased by Ouevillon Collection (Maine, USA)
(May Pottinger's Antiques, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA)
(Hastings House Antiques, Essex, Connecticut, USA)
(Indian Tree Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Martha Cusick (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
(Meryl Platt, Wilmette, Illinois, USA)
1979-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Native American Heritage. Exh. cat., the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1977, p. 170, no. 279 (ill.).
American Indian Art Magazine (Winter 1977): 91.
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Anasazi, Native American, Olla, between 900 and 1200, clay painted with slip and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council and Acquisitions Fund, 79.167.
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