Brooklyn Museum: Arts of the Americas: Globular Decorated Pitcher, Mesa Verde

Globular Decorated Pitcher, Mesa Verde

Culture: Anasazi, Native American
Medium: Pottery
Place Excavated: Double Cave Ruin, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, USA
Dates: Probably 1070-1300
Period: Pueblo III
Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 5in. (11.4 x 12.7cm) diameter of mouth: 3 1/2in. (8.9cm)
Collections: Arts of the Americas
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 03.325.10818
Credit Line: Museum Expedition 1903, Purchased with funds given by A. Augustus Healy and George Foster Peabody
Catalogue Description: This squat, globular pitcher has no neck, a flared rim and a short handle. It has broken and been mended. There are chips from rim and a 1/4" triangular chip from base. The interior is plain while the exterior is black on white. The design consists of a top band of hatchured, opposing triangles; then a single line around the pitcher; then a second band of hatchured, opposing triangles which are separated with a zig-zag line.

Collections: Arts of the Americas: Globular Decorated Pitcher, Mesa Verde