Olla (Water Jar), Depicting Rainbow Arching over Crosshatched Elements

Acoma Pueblo (Aco-Mah)
Southwest

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about 1900

Earthenware, painted with colored slips and burnished

Overall: 6 1/8 × 7 5/8 in. (15.5 × 19.3 cm)

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

46.17.10066

Geography

Place Made: Acoma Pueblo, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Southwest

Not on view

Inscriptions

Old label attached to inside: "Olla water jar, Acoma Pueblo Arizona"

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Nichols, Winter 2012

Exhibition History

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

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. 59, fig. 15.

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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