Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.
Drum jar and stick
Date: 1964
Artist or Maker: Lucy Martin Lewis (1898 - 1992)
Dimensions:
Dimensions (Jar): 15.8 × 13.7 cm (6 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
Weight (Jar): 0.5 kg (1.2 lb.)
Dimensions (Beater): 27.3 × 4.5 × 1.5 cm (10 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 9/16 in.)
Weight (Beater): 0.05 lb.
Medium: clay | deerskin | wood | nylon
Credit Line: Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, 1964.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.2968AB
Not on view
Part A - Drum jar: Acoma white ware. Undecorated jar; opening covered with deerskin; tied with strip of same; flat base; fireclouds. Beater made with twisted stick.
Part B - Drum stick: Made of section of tree branch (type of wood unknown), looped back on self and tied with fine white nylon yarn.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit November 29-30, and December 1, 2016 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 7”): Dolores remembers seeing her mother make a drum jar. She stated that her mother did not make the drumstick and believes that someone else made it. The jar is handmade with traditional natural materials and was fired outdoors. The exterior is slipped white.
In Collection(s)
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