Jar

Museum number:
2-10350
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.543
Description:
Water jar; black, white and red; upper portion markedly convex, bulbous. Ceramic, coiled, scraped.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber, Elsie Clews Parsons, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Zuni, Zuni Reservation, McKinley County
Culture or time period:
Zuni
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1918
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars, Kiapkwa Polychrome (1770–1850 AD), and Pottery
Production date:
1750-1800
Accession date:
1919
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 37 centimeters and height 28.5 centimeters
Comment:
This pot seems to be an exceedingly rare early Kiapkwa piece. The time bracket given for the Kiapkwa type is 1750-1850, but those with red buttons (like 2-10350) are said to predate 1800; later ones are black. The black line on the rim is supposed to have begun ca. 1760 (as seen in 2-10350). The shape with very full-rounded midsection and short neck having a narrow band pattern are characteristic for (see fig. 147 in Frank and Harlow) the earlier Kiapkwa type. The four circular scroll patterns connected by horizontal bands encircling the midsection seem also characteristic. The triangle motifs are common to the Ashiwi type (earlier) and Kiapkwa, but not later. The circular scrolls are an early form of the well known Zuni "Rainbird" (so-called by H.P. Mera), see fig. 155 in Frank and Harlow. Note that ours have an eye near the base of the back beak. The complex pattern pendant from the connecting bands on our piece are seen as a pendant design also on an Ashiwi type piece in H.P. Mera, "Style Trends of Pueblo Pottery," Mem., Lab. of Anthropology, Santa Fe, v. 3, 1939, p. LVII, so that ours would appear to be a particularly early Kiapkwa example. "An older jar" References: Frank & Harlow, "Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians 1600-1880," see discussion of Kiapkwa Polychrome type on p. 137 and illustration p. 141-142, also statement about rim color for Pl. XXVI.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-10350, described as Water jar; black, white and red; upper portion markedly convex, bulbous. Ceramic, coiled, scraped.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-10350, described as Water jar; black, white and red; upper portion markedly convex, bulbous. Ceramic, coiled, scraped.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-10350, described as Water jar; black, white and red; upper portion markedly convex, bulbous. Ceramic, coiled, scraped.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-10350, described as Water jar; black, white and red; upper portion markedly convex, bulbous. Ceramic, coiled, scraped.

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