Jar

22195

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 22195
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Pueblo | Zuni
Provenience New Mexico
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Clay | Pigment
Technique Polychrome
Description

Polychrome jar, neck curving to pronounced shoulders, tapering to a narrow bottom. Exterior decoration on neck consisting of crooks joined together, depicting black and red clouds coming together. Decoration on 3/4 of body is divided into three panels, the first of which consists of bows with downy feathers on top of baby crooks with triangles along the edge. The pattern is reversed on the third panel, the middle panel depicts a row of birds with crooks over their tails. The base is painted solidly in red. On one side of the body there is a jar stomach design instead of a continuation of the panels.

Height 15.88 cm
Width 21.59 cm
Credit Line Gift of Robert Adams, Jr., 1901

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