Watermelon Boy
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- Date created
- 1965
- Culture/People
- Hopi Pueblo
- Artist/Maker
- Otis Polelonema (Otis Poleonema), Hopi Pueblo, 1902-1981
- IACB source
- Museum of Northern Arizona Museum Shop
- Previous owner
- Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
- Collection History
- Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from the Museum of Northern Arizona Museum Shop (Flagstaff, Arizona) in 1965; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
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- Place
- Songoopavi (Shongopovi), Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation; Navajo County; Arizona; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- Hopi Pueblo
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 26/2336
- Barcode
- 262336.000
- Object Type
- Painting/Drawing/Print
- Title
- Watermelon Boy
- Object Name
- Painting
- Media/Materials
- Paper, tempera
- Techniques
- Painted
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 25.5 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_278446