Lizard+Pot

Date: ca. 1990
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1997/1997.124.160_1a.jpg?itok=5n5DZz_d width="354" height="269" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/lizard-pot-36251"]] || Title: **Lizard Pot**

Artist: **Christine McHorse** Born: Morenci, Arizona 1948

Material: pit-fired micaceous clay with piñon pitch Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 13 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (14.6 x 35.2 x 30.2 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1997.124.160 || Christine McHorse uses both traditional and contemporary processes for her clay creations. She fired this pot in the old Navajo manner—in an outdoor pit using cottonwood bark for fuel—and coated it with piñon pitch. For other work, she uses an electric kiln because it allows better control and thinner clay walls.
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"I feel as Navajo as anyone else—I can make my own taboos and traditions." —Christine McHorse

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