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Acoma jar

An Acoma jar decorated with rain designs.
An Aroma jar with tall x formations of hachure (crosshatchings, or rain lines).
An Aroma jar with black-and-white checkerboard patterns and red triangles.
An Acoma jar decorated with rain designs.
An Aroma jar with tall x formations of hachure (crosshatchings, or rain lines).
An Aroma jar with black-and-white checkerboard patterns and red triangles.
Artist

Unknown Artist

Date

c. 1880

Medium

Ceramic

Object Type

Pottery

Dimensions

12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)

Collecting Area

Native American Pottery

Credit Line

The Vilcek Collection

Accession Number

VF2019.02.08

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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An Acoma jar decorated with rain designs.
An Aroma jar with tall x formations of hachure (crosshatchings, or rain lines).
An Aroma jar with black-and-white checkerboard patterns and red triangles.
An Acoma jar decorated with rain designs.
An Aroma jar with tall x formations of hachure (crosshatchings, or rain lines).
An Aroma jar with black-and-white checkerboard patterns and red triangles.

About the Object

This three-color Acoma polychrome jar features white slip with black and red painted decoration. The jar is decorated with stunning designs of rain symbolism throughout its two-banded design. The body of the jar includes tall “x” formations of hachures (crosshatchings, or rain lines) and dispersed within are black-and-white checkerboard patterns surrounded by deep red triangles and additional triangular hachures. The neck decoration includes waving bands of hachures that are topped with checkerboard patterns; red triangles cap the decoration.

 

Additional Information

The Pueblo of Acoma, also known as Haak’u and Sky City, is a sacred Indigenous homeland located in northwest New Mexico. The Pueblo people who call Acoma their home are a modern people with a living culture and tradition that is rooted in their land. Their art forms, such as pottery, are the traditions of their ancestors and are directly tied to their language, dance, and celebrations.

Unknown Artist;
Private Collection, New Jersey;
[Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2005-2019, (2005.10.02);

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