Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Untitled
1974; scanned 2023
Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Digital image scanned from a 35mm black and white negative of ceramicist and sculptor Winnie Owens-Hart working on a pot while sitting on a deck of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts during the 1974 annual summer session. Owens-Hart sits on the floor of the deck, her proper right ankle crossed over her proper left ankle, and her back against the outer wall of a building. Wearing dark color pants and a patterned shirt, Ownes-Hart holds the clay piece near her face with her proper left hand while her right hand holding a clay tool as she works on the pot. On her proper left thigh is a pottery rib and to her proper left, laying on top of a towel, are various clay tools.
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Catalog reference: 2025.59.104
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