Object Details
- Collection History
- Part of a set of plates purchased from the artists by Rena Alpert Cohen (1916-2003) and her husband Harold J. Cohen (1913-1997) during a visit to San Ildefonso Pueblo in 1940 and via correspondence between 1941 and 1943; donated to MAI by Mr. and Mrs. Cohen in 1972.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- San Ildefonso Pueblo
- Artist/Maker
- Maria Poveka Martinez (Maria Martinez/Marie/Maria Antonia Montoya), San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887-1980 and Julian Martinez (Pocano), San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1884-1943
- Previous owner
- Harold J. Cohen, Non-Indian, 1913-1997
- Rena Cohen (Rena Grace Alpert/Mrs. Harold J. Cohen), Non-Indian, 1916-2003
- Donor
- Harold J. Cohen, Non-Indian, 1913-1997
- Rena Cohen (Rena Grace Alpert/Mrs. Harold J. Cohen), Non-Indian, 1916-2003
- Previous seller
- Maria Poveka Martinez (Maria Martinez/Marie/Maria Antonia Montoya), San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887-1980
- Date created
- 1940-1943
- Object Name
- Plate
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, clay slip, paint
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, slipped, burnished, painted
- Dimensions
- 3.4 x 28 cm
- Object Type
- Food/Beverage Serving
