Cleveland Museum of Art

Large Storage Jar

Date

c. 900–1100

Medium

Ceramic, slip

Culture

Southwest, Arizona, Hohokam, 10th-11th century

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Hohokam Arizona were accomplished agriculturalists whose decline after 1350 was caused partially by drought, and then flooding that overcame irrigation canals. Many Hohokam settlements boasted large public structures including platform mounds and oval ballcourts. The latter reveal contact with Mexico, where the ballgame was a long-established tradition.

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