Water Jar
Jicarilla Apache
Apache
Southwest
collected about 1900
Willow and pinon pitch
Overall: 12 × 11 7/16 in. (30.5 × 29 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elizabeth and Donald McDermid Wesbrook
54.24.13163
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Object Name
Basket
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
On view
Label
Once fully coated with pitch or resin, this tightly woven basket originally held water. Similarly, this Grueby Company vase was shaped from wet clay and then fired in a kiln. Firing removed all traces of water from the clay, hardening the vase so it could be used as a container for fresh flowers. Both artists created beautiful and functional vessels for holding water.
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
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2023
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Fall 2023
Art History 40.01, American Art and Identity, Mary Coffey, Fall 2023
Creative Writing 10.02, Writing and Reading Fiction, Katherine Crouch, Fall 2023
Geography 11.01, Qualitative Methods, Emma Colven, Fall 2023
Geography 2.01, Introduction to Human Geography, Coleen Fox, Fall 2023
Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023
English 30.01, African and African American Studies 34.01, Early Black American LIterature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2024
Writing 5.06, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024
Writing 5.07, Image and Text, Becky Clark, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, Israel Sack Gallery and the Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 19, 2024.
Provenance
"Lucy" Elizabeth Case Harwood (1867-1938), about 1900 or before; to her relative Elizabeth Barney Wesbrook (1890-1987) and Donald M. Wesbrook (1886-1956), South Royalton, Vermont; given to present collection, 1954.
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