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Souvenir Plate from New Mexico
Souvenir Plate from New Mexico
Souvenir Plate from New Mexico

Souvenir Plate from New Mexico

Dateca. 1955
Mediumglazed porcelain
Dimensions1 1/4 × 10 1/2 in. (3.2 × 26.7 cm)
ClassificationsCeramic
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Helen Grevey in memory of her husband Jay D. Hertz
Object numberPC2021.1.7
DescriptionRound, white plate decorated with geometric designs resembling Native motifs around the rim with "Picture Map of New Mexico" written at the bottom. There is an outline of the state of New Mexico and a compass rose at the right. Decorated (from left to right, top to bottom) with images of Aztec Ruins, a weaver, Taos Pueblo people, a goose, a hoop dancer, a skiier at Santa Fe, a cattle rancher, Inscription Rock, a bucking horse, fishermen, an Acoma dancer, a bear, a dancer, a deer, a golfer in Socorro, Billy the Kid, a covered wagon, Santa Rita Copper Mine, fossil beds and dinosaurs, a miner, White Sands, and oil wells.
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