Ancestral Pueblo. <em>Fourmile Polychrome Bowl</em>, 1350–1400 C.E. Ceramic, slip, 4 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (11.4 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund, 02.257.2562. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 02.257.2562.jpg)

Ancestral Pueblo. Fourmile Polychrome Bowl, 1350–1400 C.E. Ceramic, slip, 4 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (11.4 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund, 02.257.2562. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 02.257.2562.jpg)

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Fourmile Polychrome Bowl

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Ancestral Pueblo

MEDIUM Ceramic, slip

Place Collected: 35 miles Southwest, St. John's, cave near headwaters of Mineral Creek, Arizona, United States

DATES 1350–1400 C.E.

PERIOD Pueblo IV

DIMENSIONS 4 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (11.4 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas

ACCESSION NUMBER 02.257.2562

CREDIT LINE Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION The object is a bowl with decorations on the inside and outside. Underneath much of the decoration is a dark blue-black burnished undercoat. The exterior decoration is composed of a series of cream-colored coyotes or wolves, birds, and bird tracks painted in procession around the base of the vessel. The interior decoration is composed of a cream-colored and blue-black non-objective, geometric design.

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MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Ancestral Pueblo. Fourmile Polychrome Bowl, 1350–1400 C.E. Ceramic, slip, 4 1/2 x 9 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (11.4 x 24.0 x 24.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Riggs Pueblo Pottery Fund, 02.257.2562. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 02.257.2562.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 02.257.2562.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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Download our app and ask your own questions during your visit. Here are some that others have asked.

Can you tell me about the 1903 museum expedition where this was collected? Did Brooklyn Museum do digs in pueblos or how did they acquire these?

Stewart Culin, an ethnographer and curator for the Brooklyn Museum, traveled to the Southwest and purchased many objects while there.

The Museum today fully complies with North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and tribal authorities/governments in relation to our Native North American collections.

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