Bowl with Deer Design
Adam Speckled Rock, Santa Clara Pueblo / American, born 1972
Santa Clara Pueblo (Kha P'o)
Southwest
2006
Incised terracotta
Overall: 2 15/16 × 4 9/16 × 4 5/8 in. (7.5 × 11.6 × 11.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mary C. Rohr, in memory of Robert J. Rohr, III
2017.30.1
Geography
Place Made: Santa Clara Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
On view
Label
Looking just beneath the larger jar’s widest point, do you see the black stripes painted in a shell-shaped pattern? As if falling from the sky above, these abstracted rain clouds represent the importance of water in the Acoma Pueblo community, located in the colonized state of New Mexico. Water’s significance, preservation, and storage remain important today for the Acoma Pueblo and their neighbors, as suggested by the clouds adorning the smaller and more contemporary Santa Clara Pueblo bowl by Adam Speckled Rock.
How does water’s portrayal on these jars reflect communal relationships to water? How do these relationships relate to or differ from those portrayed in the paintings hanging nearby?
From the 2023 exhibition Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, Israel Sack Gallery and the Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 29, 2023-June 16, 2024.
Provenance
Mary C. Rohr, Stowe, Vermont; given to present collection, 2017.
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