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Black-and-white silver gelatin photographic print of ceramist Abbas M. Ahuwan hand building a pot. A ceramics instructor for the 1974 annual summer session at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Dr. Ahuwan stands on the right, bent over to work on the pot which sits on the wooden floor. He wears a light color shirt and dark color overalls. The pot upright, with Dr. Ahuwan’s proper right hand holding a wooden spoon and his proper left hand on the pot’s rim. The legs of other campers, who are sitting on an elevated surface, are seen in the background. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

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