Small elongated, oval dish with two pedestal feet. There is a bird perched at each end of the dish facing outwards with their wings raised as if in flight. The bird species are written on the base in pencil: one is "Nowya" which is seagull (Nauja in Inuktitut), and the other is "Kiing-ma-la".

Large stoneware dish. Dish is round, with an everted rim and thick base with foot. The well is painted with an image in blue of a woman holding a chicken. The two look each other in the eye. Surrounding the image are overlapping feather shapes in three encircling rows on the rim. Lip is painted a dark grey. Exterior is undecorated. Signature on bottom of plate.

Large stoneware dish. Dish is round, with a high everted rim and thick base with foot. The well is painted with a blue line drawing of a man and woman standing naked in a wooden bathtub filled with water. Colours are subdued, the water a light blue-green and the wood and hair shaded with yellow. Image is surrounded by encircling lines in dark grey and blue along edge of well and rim, as well as on the exterior. Signature on bottom of plate.

Terracotta dish. Round high sided dish has a deep, rounded base and flares widely at rim. The outside is burnished and painted a light tan at bottom. At midpoint is an encircling motif of faces with large, wide eyes, a small mouth and a straight lock of hair to each side of the face. Above, the pot has two colour blocks of dark orange interspersed with two blocks of tan containing a decorative linear motif in dark brown and orange. The interior is undecorated.

Large round, burnished dish; broken and repaired. From a small rounded base, the dish flares up and widely outward into a broad rim. Interior of rim is painted dark orange with a repeating set of tan, white and grey lines that surround two panels of dots and curving lines. The outer rim is painted orange while the interior base and lower portion of the exterior are undecorated. The dish had been in pieces, then glued back together.

Micaceous dish with deeply carved, abstracted rainbird design.The micaceous clay comes from the Manzano Moutains in New Mexico- a small range southeast of Albuerquerque. The clay is blened with other clay as it is quite rough with little plasticity. Coiled, shaped, fired and polished int he traditional manner it is a very forgiving clay and can be reworked and shaped. It is a great heat conductor in firing. Since the clay has such flexed particles that add their woin shimmer it is most often carved instead of painted.

Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Brooklyn Museum Collection

Wooden feast dish (parts a-i) consisting of three large, deeply carved bowls (parts a-c), the whole forming a supernatural creature called a sisiutl. The bowls each sit of 2 sets of wheels that are loosely joined by mortise and tenon arrangements. The two end bowls (parts a and c) each depict the head and body of the serpent with a large protruding snout, carved eyes, ears and bared teeth. The middle bowl (part b) has a carved and painted human-like face on the sides, with two hands on the joins. Two large ladles (parts d-e) balance in the mouths of the sisuitl, projecting outward like tongues, held in by their handles. On top of the heads are four horn-like extensions (parts f-i), one at each end and two in the middle section. The bowl is painted with black, white, green, red and yellow design elements. There are holes in the overlapping slotted pieces for dowels (not incl. with dish).