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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bottle, accession number 4-4678, described as Miniature bottle with small modeled face on one of the spouts and body of the vessel decorated with white dots. Height 5.6 cm.; diameter 4.5 cm. Painted in three colors. The spouts are black; the white dots are on a purple ground and the bottom is unslipped. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 34d.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4781, described as Miniature flaring bowl decorated with birds. Height 4.1 cm.; diameter 8.5 cm. Painted in 6 colors. The parts of the birds alternate in color from brown, black, orange, and purple. Tile background is white. The rim band, bottom, and entire interior are red. The surface of this vessel is badly corroded by lime deposits. (See #4782).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl, accession number 4-4782, described as Miniature flaring bowl, duplicate to 4781. Height 3.9 cm.; diameter 8.4 cm. The painting appears careless in some spots as evidenced by gaps between the outline and the colored area, overlapping brush strokes, etc. A very good example of "ghost firing" appears in the interior wall It appears 4781 was stacked inside of this vessel during firing. No such "ghost" is found in the former. Illustrated by Kroeber and Strong, 1924, Plate 27f.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bowl: miniature, accession number 4-9284, no description available.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 3-1809, described as Miniature human head of burnt clay, showing arrangement of hair. Diameter: ca. 1.5 inches.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 3-1811, described as Miniature human pottery heads and faces. Some triangular in outline minus back head; others complete, and animal or embryo-like. Features are often worked out with considerable detail.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 3-1836, described as Miniature jar; flattened bottom, constricted body, wide mouth; colored reddish
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 4-3795, described as Miniature black jar: lemon-shaped body, handles, expanding neck; small black bottle.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Miniature effigy vessel, accession number 4-5131, described as Miniature bird-shaped pottery vessel with large spout on back, simply painted. Rim chipped.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Miniature effigy vessel, accession number 4-5130, described as Miniature bird-shaped pottery vessel with large spout on back, simply painted. Rim chipped.

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