Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.
Bowl
Date: 1983
Artist or Maker: Grace Chino (1929-1994)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 13.3 × 23 cm (5 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Weight: 0.7 kg (1.55 lb.)
Medium: clay | paints
Credit Line: Gift of James Richard (Rick) Dillingham, II, 1993.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.1993-5-2
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit May 9-11, 2017 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 8”): The peach/pinkish tint visible on the interior is the color of the clay. It is not slipped. Sometimes this clay, which can be found at Acoma, is confused with a commercially produced clay called Storyteller Clay. The commercial clay usually has a darker pink tint when fired. There is a clay source at Acoma where this color of clay is found. This is an older source of clay and when fired, it turns this peach/pinkish color, which is different from the typical white clay that Acoma is known for. Both clay colors come from the same general area. The clay also appears to have tiny flecks of mica, which is not characteristic of Acoma clay. The participants believe Grace probably added some to the clay.
Grace Chino, the artist, used traditional materials until processing the materials became too difficult for her to do. At that point she began using commercial paints while still using traditional clays.
In Collection(s)
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