Pottery bowl. Shallow with incurved rim and flat bottom. Polychromed black, red, and white. Height: 13.5 cm, Diameter: 40 cm
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Maker or artist:
Paque
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels), Pottery, and Unclassified polychrome pottery
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 13.5 centimeters and diameter 40 centimeters
Comment:
Exterior: animal on bottom; 10 panels around bowl over shoulder. Geometric patterns alternate between (A) 3 stacked negative arcs, and (B) 2 stacked half arcs with triangles and blocked in red. Interior: broad lines below shoulder; one segment in the design area is blocked in red with a negative triangle and three dashes in the center. The rest is covered with a design possibly a stylized bird and ticking and stippling possibly done with a corn cob, also diagonal hatches. Conservation: pot repaired, one break. References: Ann Hitchcock, Museum of Northern Arizona, January 1974.