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Acoma jar with bird designs

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Early 1900s

Unknown maker
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Acoma
Clay and paint
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6¾ x 9 in. (17.2 x 22.9 cm)
Vilcek Foundation Collection
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VF2019.02.02

This three-color Acoma polychrome water jar features white slip with black and orange painted decoration. The all-over-designed jar consists of black framing lines at the mouth and above the orange base. The body decoration is outlined with black-filled doubled triangles that represent rain clouds at the top and mountains at the bottom. The center decoration is a rainbird with central red split square, or heart, surrounded by attached hachured (crosshatched) and black-filled triangles that symbolize rain and clouds. Above and below the embellished orange center are stylized bird heads. The center decoration continues around the body of the jar.


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