Object ID: 2015.04.161

ethnographic
White Wedding Vase with Corn

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Catalog Record

Culture/Ethnicity: Isleta Pueblo

Object Name: Vase

Other Name: Wedding Vase

Artist/Creator: Caroline Carpio

Locale: Isleta Pueblo

Use: Decorative

Construction: Coiled/Sculpted

Height: 22.86

Length: 0

Width: 22.86

Location: Kent Hall, East Gallery, Unit_8, Shelf_2

Description: This white vessel has two spouts with 5 stair-step pyramids cut into the spout openings. There is a twisted handle that connects the two spouts. One side of the vessel has an etched circle with a figure in the center resembling a zia or a cross and outside the circle there is a cut-out half circle design all the way around that is textured on the interior. The opposing side has a piece of 3-D corn complete with stalk and silks.

Source: Phillip L. Boucher