2013-04 Chick and Egg Bowl
This is a curious bowl with both an unusual shape for a First Mesa pot and an unusual design. The bowl extends upward from its base forming a conical shape, and then extends vertically to the lip. This vertical section is less than an inch tall, but it turns inward...
2013-02 Small Polacca Tourist Canteen with Lugs and Polychromatic Design
First People potters of the Southwest have long produced canteens necessary to carry drinking water to the cornfields. These utility canteens carry from several cups to a quart or more of water. (See “utility ware” in the Index of Categories for the variety of such...
2012-22 Matsaki Polychrome Bowl with Avian Motif
Between about 1475 CE and 1680 CE the Zuni people produced “Matsaki” pottery, including this bowl. This pottery type was roughly contemporaneous with monochromatic Hopi Jeddito ware (see 1994-15 and 1997-05 in this collection) and is generally categorized as derived...
