Fourmile Polychrome Bowl

Artist:Ancestral Pueblo

Medium: Ceramic, slip

Geograhical Locations:

• 35 miles Southwest, St. John's, cave near headwaters of Mineral Creek, Arizona, United States

Dates:1350–1400 C.E.

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

Exhibitions:

• Objects of Myth and Memory
• American Art

Accession Number: 02.257.2562

Image: 02.257.2562.jpg,

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.

Brooklyn Museum