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White Bowl with Black Geometric Designs
- Culture: Anasazi, Native American
- Medium: Clay, slip
- Place Excavated: Red Rock, Arizona, USA
- Dates: probably 700-900 C.E.
- Period: Pueblo I
- Dimensions: 5 x 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm)
- Inscriptions: Number in ink along upper side.
- Collections: Arts of the Americas
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 03.325.4264
- Credit Line: Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund
- Catalogue Description: The object is a white bowl with black geometric designs. The upper body, which extends outward with a gentle curve, is covered in a repetitive simple birdlike pattern. The lower body has bold geometric angular forms which move around the bowl and include single rows of large connected triangles. The forms are carefully outlined and filled in with patterns of parallel lines. The vessel is in fair condition. There is some abrasion along the inner rim. There are two cracks from the rim of the upper body which become hairline cracks as they travel into the lower body. Some crackling and flaking of paint. One third of upper surface has dark spots from firing; the bottom has additional dark spots.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum