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Bowl
Native American, Ancestral Pueblo
Pueblo III
1000–1250
Object Place: New Mexico, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with slip paint
Dimensions
6.67 cm (2 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William White Howells
Accession Number1973.160
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionThis earthenware bowl has rough coils emanating from the center of the base on the outside and a smooth painted surface on the inside. Black line decoration on the inside consists of jagged geometric forms filled either with parallel lines, cross hatching, or solid black.
ProvenanceWilliam White Howells (b. 1908- d. 2005) and Muriel Seabury Howells (b. 1910 - d. 2002), Cambridge, MA and Kittery, ME; 1973, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William White Howells to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 14, 1973)