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Fourmile Polychrome Bowl

Culture: Anasazi, Native American
Medium: Ceramic, slip
Place Collected: 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)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 02.257.2562
Credit Line: Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund
Image: Overall, 02.257.2562.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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.

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