Edward Sheriff Curtis
Potter Building Her Kiln

ArtistAmerican, 1868–1952
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Potter Building Her Kiln
Date1906
PlaceUnited States
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:12 3/16 × 16 3/16 in. (31 × 41.1 cm)
Mount (first mount): 13 3/16 × 16 3/4 in. (33.5 × 42.5 cm)
Mount (larger mount): 17 13/16 × 22 1/16 in. (45.2 × 56 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mundy Companies
Object number96.681
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Tartt Gallery, Warrenton, Virginia]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom left edge of larger mount in white ink "Burning Pottery-Hopi"
bottom left on image in white ink "398-06"
verso of larger mount top left in ink "Burning Pottery-Hopi", in pencil "44"
bottom center in pencil "ESC MPM|156"
bottom right in pencil "ECOLO JT / Nombeyo-"
verso of larger mount bottom right corner a stamp[upside down] "117"

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