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 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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