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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4641, described as Cup bowl decorated with six trophy heads. Height 10.8 cm.; diameter 18.3 cm. Painted in 8 colors. The heads are purple, grey, orange, light orange, and brown; all have black hair and white slings. The background is orange and the rim band black. The grey pigment contains specular hematite giving it a sparkling metallic appearance. The brown is almost indistinguishable from the grey, but it does not contain hematite. The interior of the vessel is red and the exterior bottom is black. The vessel was cracked in antiquity and has one pair of mend holes. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 29b.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4726, described as Cup bowl decorated with an anthropomorphic mythical being. Height 10.0 cm.; diameter 16.9 cm. Painted in seven colors. The creature has a purple face, white forehead ornament, orange mouth mask, flesh sleeves, and a brown trophy head in his cloak. The background is black and the rim band purple. The entire interior is red with cris-crossing burnishing lines on the bottom which may have been intentional. The design area extends on to the bottom of the vessel, but a red slipped circular area covers the extreme bottom. Lumps in the vessel wall appear to be caused by very large temper. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27n; Uhle, 1913, Figure 12:1.
Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4676, described as Cup bowl decorated with three crayfish. Height 11.2 cm.; diameter 19.3 cm. Painted in five colors. Because of the great deterioration of the vessel it is difficult to tell the colors in some portions. All the crayfish have white legs. The remainder of the bodies vary in grey, purple, and black on a red background. The entire interior is red and the bottom is unslipped. The vessel was cracked in antiquity and repaired by tieing through one pair of mend holes. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Figure 9b, p. 386. Mended.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4682, described as Cup bowl decorated with a band of 28 eight-pointed stars and two solid colored bands. Height 11.7 cm.; diameter 15.1 cm. Painted in six colors. The stars alternate in a black, orange, purple theme. Below this is a purple band and then an orange band. The background is a curious "pink" shade which is found only at this time period. The interior is solid red. There is a black band circling the bottom. It is in fragmentary condition. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 35d.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4685, described as Cup bowl decorated with horizontal, full faced trophy heads arranged in three lines. Height 9.0 cm.; diameter 13.4 cm Painted in five colors. The top and bottom row of heads have white faces and the center has orange. Hair is black with a white line. The background is purple, the bottom and rim band black, and the interior red. Part of the vessel has crumbled apart. Temper is of variable size. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27b.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4625, described as Cup bowl decorated with a Serpentine Creature. Height 11.8 cm.; diameter 11.9 cm. Painted in six colors. The creature's face is orange, paws are purple, spikes black, forehead flesh, all on a white background. The interior and the exterior bottom are dark red. The vessel was cracked in antiquity and repaired by means of two pairs of drilled holes. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27s and Figure 4.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4680, described as Cup bowl decorated with step designs, bands, and black fruits. Height 8.5 cm.; diameter 9.4 cm.' Painted in four colors. The steps are orange, the bands purple, and the background white. There is a dark black rim band on both the interior and exterior. The remainder of the interior is uns1ipped. There is also a black ring encircling the bottom. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 28j.
Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4742, described as Cup bowl painted with six trophy heads lying horizontally. Height 9.8 cm.; diameter 16.1 cm. Painted in five colors. It appears as if the red background was applied first and then the violet and orange colored areas of the faces. Next the white mouth portion was drawn and then the black outline and hair. As a last step the white slings and panel dividers were applied. The bottom is black as well as the rim band; the interior is solid red. This vessel is interesting in that all the outlines look blurred because of vigerous burnishing which was done mainly in a horizontal direction. However the slings appear to have been done vertically. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27g.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4775, described as Cup bowl with painted design of two Anthropomorphic Mythical Beings. Height 10.5 cm.; diameter 14.9 cm. Painted in seven colors. The ground color on the exterior is black, carelessly applied so that there are spots of it on the bottom as well as solid color on the side walls; the interior is red. The face of the principal figures are purple, the forehead and mouth ornaments orange, the breech-cloth brown, and other details grey and white. The vessel was cracked in antiquity and mended by tying through one pair of drilled holes. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27m, and Proulx, 1968, Plate 3b.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Cup bowl, accession number 4-4686, described as Cup bowl painted with a "fish scale" geometric design. Height 0.3 cm.; diameter 16.2 cm. Painted in four colors. The design is painted in purple on an orange ground; the dots are white with black centers. The rim band is black as is the entire bottom. A purple band 1.2 cm. wide extends around the inner rim; the rest of the interior is unslipped. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 35e; and Proulx, 1968, Plate 27b.

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