Made of pottery. Interior designs of black on white; narrow parallel lines around rim; grasshopper on bottom. Hole in bottom ("kill hole"). Decorations in mineral paint.
Donor:
Mrs. Robert F. Gill
Collection place:
Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Grant; Santa Rita
Collector:
Wesley Bradfield
Collection date:
October 19, 1967
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
1963
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Unassociated funerary objects
Dimensions:
diameter 7.25 inches and height 3.25 inches
Comment:
Remarks: "Copy of note glued to side of bowl, removed 10-11-67: "(?).371) Buried under the head of a skeleton in a deep entrance of a very early type of pit room but pattern, style of workmanship and paste shows it to have been made about the time the underground house was abandoned for the surface house." " "Pueblo III, ca. 1100-1200 A.D." "Repair: Note: slip removed from area of bowl coated w/shipping glue. 1. Base coat of thinned "Dap" spackling compound colored with water color paint. Designs filled in w/tube water color. Color varied to indicate black designs, white slip and slightly off-white burnishing marks in restored area. Exterior of vessel washed only to remove shipping glue.
Loans:
S1972-1973 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (February 2, 1973–February 6, 1973), S1978-1979 #40: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (February 27, 1979–April 11, 1979), S1979-1980 #10: Hearst Art Gallery (Saint Mary's College) (August 27, 1979–November 1, 1979), and S1979-1980 #59: University of California, Berkeley (April 11, 1980–April 25, 1980)