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Acoma jar

A three-color Acoma polychrome pot features cream slip with black and orange painted decoration.
Artist

Unknown Artist

Date

c. 1920s

Medium

Ceramic

Object Type

Pottery

Dimensions

8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (22.2 x 27.3 cm)

Collecting Area

Native American Pottery

Credit Line

The Vilcek Collection

Accession Number

VF2019.02.04

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Acoma corn crosshatch New Mexico pottery rain cloud
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Currently on loan

Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery is on view at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture from July 31, 2022 to May 29, 2023. The exhibition will open at the Vilcek Foundation on July 13, 2023.

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A three-color Acoma polychrome pot features cream slip with black and orange painted decoration.

About the Object

This three-color Acoma polychrome pot features cream slip with black and orange painted decoration. The all-over-designed pot centers on its main decoration of cornstalks. The center corn motif is contoured with black triangles that may symbolize rain clouds. Within each open white space are hachured (crosshatched) triangles that likely represent a rain storm. Each cornstalk is surrounded by a single crossing orange rainbow band that furthers the thematic design of rain and growth.

 

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, Carlsbad, CA;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2004-2019, (2004.04.02);

Santa Fe. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery (July 30, 2022-May 29, 2023); New York. Vilcek Foundation and Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 13, 2023-June 2, 2024); Houston. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (October 27, 2024-January 19, 2025); St. Louis. St. Louis Art Museum (March 9-June 1, 2025).

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