Olla (Water Jar)
A:shiwi (Zuni)
Zuni Pueblo (Halona-Wah)
Southwest
about 1900-1920
Earthenware with colored slips and burnished
Overall: 12 3/16 × 14 15/16 in. (31 × 38 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans
157.9.13891
Geography
Place Made: Zuni Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Publication History
[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 42. (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Provenance
Collected by the ethnologist Walter Hough (1859-1935); Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.
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