Jar with black and white geometric design

ca. 1981

Native American, Acoma Pueblo, 1989 - 1992

This great artist was one of the "matriarchs" of Pueblo pottery and was renowned for her thin-walled vessels with exquisite fineline painting. Lewis came to demonstrate pottery at the Seattle Art Museum with her daughter Delores in the early 1980s.

Ceramic, kaolin slip, organic pigment

4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)

Diam.: 5 7/16 in.

Gift of the artist

82.66

Not currently on view

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