About the Artwork
The Three Sisters
1996
Richard Zane Smith
born 1955
Native american
Unknown
Metate, clay, seeds, beans and corn
Overall: 5 1/2 × 13 × 8 inches (14 × 33 × 20.3 cm)
Ceramics
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Lucille Miller
2009.56
Courtesy of Richard Zane Smith
Markings
Signed and dated, on bottom: Richard Zane Smith 96
Leather tag, on bottom of metate: Thank you O Creator for my three sisters
Provenance
by 1997, (Gallery TEN?, USA)
1997, purchased by Lucille and Marshall Miller (Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA)
2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Courtesy of Richard Zane Smith
Richard Zane Smith, The Three Sisters, 1996, metate, clay, seeds, beans and corn. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lucille Miller, 2009.56.
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