jar
- Museum number
- Am2005,01.3
- Description
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Black, coil formed ceramic jar with an exagerrated mid-body bulge rising from a concave base. A rounded ridge encircles the jar on the shoulder with the neck flaring out to a fluted rim.
- Production date
- 19thC(late) (?)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 37 centimetres
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Height: 23.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The label on the jar's neck may refer to Samuel Eldodt who was granted a license by the Commissioner of U.S. Indian Affairs in 1884 to conduct trade with the Pueblo Indians. He traded from a store in San Juan Pueblo, no great distance from Santa Clara where this jar was crafted, into the early Twentieth Century. There is a record of him being a delegate to the "Win the War for Permanent Peace Convention" held in Albuquerque September 1918.The Eldodt Brothers (Samuel and Nathan) were fairly well-known merchants in New Mexico. They arrived from Germany sometime between 1860-1880 and settled in Rio Arriba County (San Juan Pueblo). Their names show up in many learned journals and books on New Mexico economic and Jewish history.
Samuel Eldodt was probably not a "collector" in the strict sense of the term. Owning/operating from the trading post in the San Jaun Pueblo, he was in contact with many Pueblo Indians buying/trading/selling their ware. However upon Eldodt's death, some of his estate was given to the Museum of New Mexico (and subsequently may have been called "Eldodt Collection"). The Museum's collections were split up in the 1930s and materials distributed among several institutions. Those that might have received Eldodt material are the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the School of American Research.
Information acquired from:
Fray Angelico Chavez History Library
Palace of the Governors
120 Washington Ave. Santa Fe ,
New Mexico 87504-2087, U.S.A.
Phone: (+)505.476.5090
Fax: (+)505.476.5093
www.palaceofthegovernors.org
- Location
- On display (G26/dc20)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006 20 Jun-Present, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "Pueblo Pottery"
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- A label indicates the jar was formerly part of the "Eldodt Collection".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2005,01.3