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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research. Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.

Jar

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.
Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2015 School for Advanced Research.

Jar

Date: 1986
Artist or Maker: Grace Chino (1929-1994)
Dimensions:
Dimensions: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Weight: 1.1 kg (2.45 lb.)
Medium: clay | paints
Credit Line: Indian Arts Research Center purchase for the permanent collection, 1987.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.1987-5-2
Not on view
DescriptionAcoma polychrome jar; four-color; white slip with black, orange, and yellow painted decoration. The design consists of repeating panels of triangles and zigzags around the neck and three pumpkins with corn around the body. White interior with orange band at rim. Kiln fired.

Copy of older jar on the cover of Frank and Harlow's Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians, 1600-1880.
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”): Nothing was said about this jar other than confirming the number (3) of pumpkin motifs in the design.
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