Canteen
Acoma Pueblo (Aco-Mah)
Southwest
about 1900
White terracotta with red, white and black pigment
Overall: 7 3/16 × 8 7/16 in. (18.2 × 21.4 cm)
Overall: 9 in. (22.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.10064
Geography
Place Made: Acoma Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
On view
Label
This terracotta canteen serves the practical purpose of storing water for future consumption. The artist lived in the Southwest, a desert region where water must be conserved to sustain life for crops, animals, and people.The linear pattern likely symbolizes the rains falling from the sky that would fill this vessel.
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
Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, 1903-1907; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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