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Water jar

Date: c. 1630

Artist or Maker: Unknown

Dimensions:

Dimensions: 21.6 × 35.6 cm (8 1/2 × 14 in.)

Weight: 2.7 kg (5.95 lb.)

Medium: clay | paints

Credit Line: Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, 1928.

Place Made:

Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America

Object Number: IAF.1037

Not on view

DescriptionLittle Colorado Glazed polychrome. White slip with black glaze and flat red painted decoration, red underbody, black ticking on interior rim, small, convex base. Round form with short vertical neck. White-slipped upperbody and red-slipped base. Stylized birds in red slip and glaze with floating Xs. Appears to be sherd temper.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit May 11-13, 2016 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 6”): This jar may have been found in an old ruin, possibly in the walls of a house. This could possibly be a birthing jar, indicated by the designs and the dots along the interior of the rim. There is a line break in the thick line that separates the neck from the body.

In Collection(s)

Acoma Collection

Bibliography:

The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo

Pg. 75
Fig. 3.20

The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo

Pg. 94
Fig. 5.1

Acoma and Laguna Pottery

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