Storage Jar

Inscriptions

Marks: "ZUNI F.C.C. DEC. '03" - done at time of manufacture on the base.

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

Exhibition History

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

Publication History

[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 42. (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. 65, fig. 25.

Provenance

Tsineha Sinehay, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico; made for Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, December 1903; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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