Polychrome Jar with Rainbow, Macaw, and Floral Motifs
Pueblo of Acoma
1880s
Medium
Earthenware and slip
Dimensions
42.6 × 46.7 cm (16 3/4 × 18 3/8 in.)
Classification
vessel
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
189293
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 artists of the Acoma Pueblo, west of Albuquerque, produced an especially disting...