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Untitled

1974; scanned 2023

Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, United States, North and Central America

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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 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 is bent over on one knee, with both hands going towards a clay coil on the wood floor. Dr. Ahuwan’s wears dark color overalls and a light color shirt. To the left is a clay pot, and slightly behind Dr. Ahuwan on the left is a bucket.

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Catalog reference: 2025.59.55

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