Navajo. <em>Bowl (Tetsa) Decorated with Animal and Human Figures</em>, 1800–1903. Clay, slip, 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (10.0 x 21.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund, 03.325.3799. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 03.325.3799.jpg)

Navajo. Bowl (Tetsa) Decorated with Animal and Human Figures, 1800–1903. Clay, slip, 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (10.0 x 21.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund, 03.325.3799. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 03.325.3799.jpg)

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Bowl (Tetsa) Decorated with Animal and Human Figures

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Navajo

MEDIUM Clay, slip

DATES 1800–1903

DIMENSIONS 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (10.0 x 21.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas

ACCESSION NUMBER 03.325.3799

CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Buff colored pottery bowl with dark red slip figures painted on exterior and interior. Rim is also painted with red slip. Figure painted on the exterior is a large red deer. On the opposite exterior side of the bowl is a small abstract design that may be the artist's signature. Figures representing a man with a headdress (bottom of the bowl), a man with a hat on horseback, and 3 deer (facing right) are painted on the interior in red slip.

EXHIBITIONS

Objects of Myth and Memory

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Navajo. Bowl (Tetsa) Decorated with Animal and Human Figures, 1800–1903. Clay, slip, 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (10.0 x 21.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund, 03.325.3799. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 03.325.3799.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 03.325.3799.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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