
Fourmile Polychrome Bowl
- Artist: Anasazi (Culture)
- Medium: Ceramic, slip
- Geographical Location: 35 miles Southwest, St. John's, cave near headwaters of Mineral Creek, Arizona, USA
- Dates: 1350-1400 C.E.
- Period: Pueblo IV
- Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (11.4 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm)
- Collection: Arts of the Americas
- Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 5H10, 4B
- Accession Number: 02.257.2562
- Image: 02.257.2562.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 0,
Catalogue Description:
The object is a bowl with decorations on the inside and outside. Underneath much of the decoration is a dark blue-black burnished undercoat. The exterior decoration is composed of a series of cream-colored coyotes or wolves, birds, and bird tracks painted in procession around the base of the vessel. The interior decoration is composed of a cream-colored and blue-black non-objective, geometric design.
