Canteen (1870): Art, History and Details
Canteen at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1870, ceramic, slip. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Canteen (1870) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Since the 1500s, Hopi women made big-bellied canteens, based on Spanish prototypes, and used them to carry water. By the late 1800s, canteens became popular with Euro-American tourists, who increasingly flocked to the Southwest in search of encounters with “exotic” Native American cultures. Thus, Hopi artists embellished their wares to improve their appeal, here with graceful abstract forms.
Object facts
- Title: Canteen
- Date: 1870
- Culture: Native North America, Southwest, Arizona, Pueblo, Hopi
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: ceramic, slip
- Dimensions: Overall: 20 x 24.5 cm (7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Collection: AA - Native North America
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Accession number: 1923.1078
Collection credit
Gift of the Smithsonian Institution
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