Bowl with opposed bird design
Bowl with opposed bird design
Bowl with opposed bird design
Bowl with opposed bird design

Currently not on view

Bowl with opposed bird design,

1350–1450

Salado
Roosevelt Red Ware, Cliff polychrome
2014-79

Cliff Salado Bowls

Salado culture, named after the Salt River in southeastern Arizona, where it was first encountered, emerged around A.D. 1250 through migrations of Mogollon, Hohokam, and Ancestral Puebloan peoples into this area of southwest Arizona. The Salado artistic style became widely popular and was emulated throughout the region. The two bowls displayed here represent a type of Salado ceramic known as Cliff polychrome. Cliff bowls share with all Salado pottery the use of red, white, and carbon-black slips but implement a recurve to the vessel wall, just below the rim. Figural images, such as the birds appearing in one of the bowls on view, are much more rare on Salado pottery than on Mimbres; in both traditions, geometric designs are far more common.

Information

Title
Bowl with opposed bird design
Dates

1350–1450

Medium
Ceramic with red, black, and white slips
Dimensions
h. 9.2 cm., diam. 19.7 cm (3 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund
Object Number
2014-79
Place Made

North America, United States, Arizona, Tonto Basin

Culture
Salado (culture or style)
Type
bowls (vessels), ceramics
Materials
slip, ceramic
Subject
parrots

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