Kiln-fired Zuni prayer bowl with handle, stepped edges painted red. The body of the pot is slipped with white paint. The interior has a frog image in the center with four tadpoles; the exterior has two more frog designs surmounted by stepped tabletta and two groups of...
Tadpole design on interior, Zuni step design on exterior, four-stepped rim. See notes on a talk by Dr. Suzanne Kenagy at a Recursos seminar (1990) for discussion of such Zuni corn-meal bowls. For another Zuni prayer bowl, see 2003-06; for a somewhat similar Hopi bowl,...
