Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Indian Trading Post (Phoenix, Arizona) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian
- Artist/Maker
- Design by Pablita Velarde (Tse Tsan), K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo), 1918-2006; tile attributed to Robert McKusick, Non-Indian, of Desert House Crafts, Tucson, Arizona
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- IACB source
- Indian Trading Post
- Date created
- 1955-1965
- Object Name
- Tile
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, paint, glaze, cork, glue
- Techniques
- Mold-made, painted, glazed, glued
- Dimensions
- 15.2 x 15 x 1.7 cm
- Object Type
- Made-for-Sale items and Souvenirs
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