Black-and-White Storage Jar with Abstract Geometric Motifs
Pueblo of Acoma
1890s
Medium
Ceramic (earthenware) and pigment
Dimensions
46.4 × 48.9 cm (18 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
Classification
vessel
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
189294
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In the American Southwest, there is an Indian ceramic tradition that began to take form in the early centuries A.D. and has continued unbroken to the present time. Characterized by its many superbly varied styles, the art has been sustained by diverse Pueblo peoples and some of their neighbors, whose ancient and more recent settlements have long been established in the arid regions of Arizona and New Mexico. Ceramic artist of the Ácoma Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, produced an especially distingu...