Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2014 School for Advanced Research.
Storage jar
Date: 1880-1890
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 26.7 × 30.5 cm (10 1/2 × 12 in.)
Weight: 2.2 kg (4.8 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.1094
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit June 26-27, 2017 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 9”): This is a storage jar. There is no evidence of use as a water jar. It looks to have been broken and reconstructed at some point but there are no records of conservation work done on this jar. It was likely put back together before coming to SAR/IARC. The black paint on this jar is more of a dark brown color. The design is a two panel bird design with a variation of a rainbow band. The bird is likely a road runner and not a parrot. There are line breaks on the bottom two framing lines.
According to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit February 26-27, 2019 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 12”): Storage jars are constructed with thicker walls than water jars in order to support their size and the weight of the contents they would carry. The base of a storage jar is either round or flat. Storage jars were likely stored in cool places and stored items such as dried meats, crops from the garden, and other goods.
Storage jars are no longer being used or made at Acoma today. Jars that are made today that are comparable in size to that of a storage jar are usually made for sale and not for use.
In Collection(s)
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