Prayer Meal Bowl with Animal Motifs Item Number: 03.325.4721 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
This is a cream colored bowl with stepped rim outlined in two black lines. Exterior design is black avanu with a heart line that curls around the shoulder and one black horned toad inset within each exterior step. Interior of each step has inset a dragonfly and two tadpoles. Interior has a very worn, red horned-toad. Paint is flaked and abraded especially on interior. Condition: There is some black discoloration from firing, and a large crack in one stepped projection which was repaired.
Credit Line
Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund
Item History
- Made between 1868 and 1899
What
Who
- Culture
- She-we-na
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1868 and 1899
Other
- Classification
- Vessel