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Olla (water jar)
Helen Gachupin (Native American, 1931–about 1991)
Native American, Zia Pueblo
late 1980s
Object Place: Zia, New Mexico, United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with slip paint
Dimensions
Overall: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Diam.(Overall): 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Diam.(Overall): 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Anne and Joseph P. Pellegrino
Accession Number1993.950
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionBody silhouette flares slowly to widest point at shoulder then turns toward wide, short neck. Muted slips; wide red band at base. Body and neck painting merge after a thin black line. Two rainbow arches divide body ground in half enclosing deer and feather symbols. Between deer and rainbows are triagular areas of feather motifs topped with a roadrunner's head.
Signed
On base: Helen Gachupin / Zia
ProvenanceLate 1980s, sold by the artist to Anne and Joseph Pellegrino, Boston; 1993, year-end gift of Anne and Joseph Pellegrino to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 1994)