Image / Postcard of artist sculpting with clay

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Title: Postcard of artist sculpting with clay
Creator: unknown
Contributor: Fred Harvey (Firm)
Detroit Publishing Co.
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1905-1930
Contributing Institution: Sherman Indian Museum
Collection: Sherman Indian Museum collection
Rights Information: Copyright Unknown
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Description: Scope/Content: Unused postcard showing an indigenous artist at work.
Funding: This item was digitized with support from a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard
Form/Genre: postcards
Extent: 3.75 x 5.75 inches
Identifier: ark:/86086/n27082ft
sim_167_000_017
Language: English
eng
Subject: Tewa
Art
Cultural heritage
Place: New Mexico
Relation: Art
Culture
Location: Box 167
Transcription: Front: Tesuque Woman Making Rain Gods, Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico. Back: Tesuque is situated on the left bank of the Tesuque river, a few miles north of Santa Fe and numbers about one hundred inhabitants. The town is quadrangular in shape, about 240 feet long and 150 feet wide. The houses rise to a height of two stories, entrance to the second floor being by means of a ladder from the street. The women still prepare their meals on the primitive metates, there being in many houses three or four compartment mealing bins, where corn is ground between two stones. Their pottery comprises little images, Rain Gods, and curious animal forms.

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