Olla (Water Jar)

San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'o-Woh-Ge-Owinge)
Southwest

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1890-1905

Terracotta with polychrome slip

Overall: 10 3/4 × 7 1/16 in. (27.3 × 18 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.10032

Geography

Place Made: San Ildefonso Pueblo, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southwest

On view

Label

Decorated with abstracted floral motifs, these vessels for holding water portray vegetal forms that sprouted from the earth. Like the artists who blew the glass or shaped the silver on display elsewhere in this exhibition, these Indigenous artists took inspiration from the beauty of flowers and incorporated them into their works. The artists who shaped and painted these water jars made them to sell to White tourists in the region.

From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

English 39.01, American Fiction: 1950-1990, Kimberly Brown, Winter 2025

Exhibition History

Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-August 13, 2000.

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

Publication History

[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 43. (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)

Beth Michelle Schrift, Pueblo Pottery of the Churchill Collection at the Turn of the Century: A Representation of Changing Times, 2004, pp. 1-102, ill. p. 34, fig. 3, p. 38, fig. 4.

Provenance

Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, 1903-1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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