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Bowl
Native American, Ancestral Pueblo
Prehistoric
1050–1200
Object Place: Puerco River vally to Reserve region, New Mexico (West Central), United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with slip paint
Dimensions
Overall: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.), diameter: 28.6 cm (11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Lynch, Anne and Joseph P. Pellegrino, an anonymous donor, and Frank B. Bemis Fund
Accession Number1989.239
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionWide bowl with flat, high, sides. A white circle covers the flat interior bottom around which radiate four equally spaced vertical bands of fine lines. Between the verticals are x-shaped bands of fine lines that intersect as if woven. The spaces between the bands are filled with wider black and white lines.
Provenance1989, sold by Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 27, 1989)