id: 117338 accession number: 1937.898 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.898 updated: 2023-03-10 11:02:18.372000 Water Jar (Olla) with Rainbird, 1850–60. Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Zuni (A:shiwi) Pueblo. Ceramic, slip; overall: 25.5 x 33 cm (10 1/16 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.898 title: Water Jar (Olla) with Rainbird title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1850–60 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 current location: 231 Native North American creditline: Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White copyright: --- culture: Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Zuni (A:shiwi) Pueblo technique: ceramic, slip department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Native North America type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 25.5 x 33 cm (10 1/16 x 13 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection opening date: 2010-03-07T00:00:00 Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 7-May 30, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 2010: "Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection" March 7 - May 30, 2010 --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Zuni (A:shiwi) women used ollas (oy-ahs) like this one to collect, carry, and store water. The water well was a place for socializing, and the vessels’ public visibility may help to explain their elaborate, deftly painted decoration—here an abstract creature called the Rainbird whose beak spirals between two stylized, stepped wings that may allude to moisture-bearing clouds. Milford Nahohai, the contemporary Zuni potter, believes the motif is inspired by rain clouds that roll into the Zuni River Valley, their leading edges curled under the main mass to form a curve like that of the beak. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bergh, Susan E., "Unburied Treasure", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 10, December 2005 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-10/page/4 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 343 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
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