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{
    "localId": "117338",
    "label": "Water Jar (Olla) with Rainbird",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "117338",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Water Jar (Olla) with Rainbird",
    "description": "Zuni (A:shiwi) women used ollas (<em>oy-</em>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.",
    "date": "1850–60",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.898",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60740564"
    ],
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.898/1937.898_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.898/1937.898_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 25.5 x 33 cm (10 1/16 x 13 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Native North America, Southwest, New Mexico, Zuni (A:shiwi) Pueblo"
    ],
    "accession": "1937.898"
}

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    "tec": "ceramic, slip",
    "tombstone": "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",
    "collection": "AA - Native North America",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Bergh, Susan E., \"Unburied Treasure\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 45 no. 10, December 2005",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-10/page/4"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 343"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"The North Galleries.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 24-29.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01/page/n23/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. <strong><br></strong>",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 28"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.898",
    "creditline": "Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:05:16.990000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.898/1937.898_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 117338,
    "dept": "Art of the Americas",
    "coll": "AA - Native North America",
    "med": "ceramic, slip",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
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