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House Group, the evening meal; polychrome; terra cotta group representing a two-story house with canopy roof on piles and 11 figures occupied with various household tasks on two levels an upper terace and a lower, enclosed room with a wide doorway; on each of two sides a stairway of five steps leads from the base to the upper level; the surface is decorated in polychrome (red, yellow, black) with geometric designs lozenges interlocked and wavy stripes; the piece is much weathered and has been extensively restored — House Group, c. 100-400
Nayarit

G260

modified Greek key pattern at a diagonal in white on a painted black ground; thin white band around rim with wider black band nearest lip; wide shoulder with small foot and mouth; pattern is largest in center and decreases near rim and foot — Black and White Pot #1, 2014
Paula Estevan

G259

painted design in black on white ground; horizontal bands with diagonal intersecting lines; triangular shapes painted in black creating a star-like pattern that is larger at center and smaller near rim and foot; wide shoulder with small foot and mouth; thin white band around rim with wider painted band nearest lip — Black and White Pot #2, 2014
Paula Estevan

G259

thin-walled large bowl; interior painted with spirals and other geometric designs in red — Bowl, c. 900-1200
Hohokam

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dancing figure wearing a long garment in black and tan, decorated with maze-like motifs and circles; elaborate hairstyle with large back bun; black lines on face and back of shaved head; contrapposto post with knees bent, striding, with head turned to PL; arms swinging, with hands in fists — Gage, 2020-2021
Virgil Ortiz

G259

standing figure wearing a long garment in black and tan, decorated with maze-like motifs and circles; elaborate hairstyle with two small front buns and one large back bun; black lines on face and back of shaved head; arms out, with PR hand slightly raised and PL hand in a fist; feet apart — Jagg, 2020-2021
Cochiti Pueblo

G259

Awatovi Birds, Dextra Quotskuyva — Awatovi Birds, 1990
Dextra Quotskuyva

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figure wears a replica of a heavy stone yoke at waist over skirt with fret motif; necklace; bands of bracelets on left arm; headdress broken at right. On the left knee a nead with round headdress in relief. Hole in right shoulder forms hook from which rattle could be suspended. The mould for front of body is well designed but assembled crudely with the mould for back.; Pinkish white pottery — Figure, c. 600-750 CE
Nopiloa (Veracruz)

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Stirrup-handle jar in the form of an owl with a fat body. The face, plastically rendered, is painted buff color; the rest of the body is red and burnished. — Vessel, c. 200 BCE - 600 CE
Moche

G260

Bowl, wide-mouthed wit slightly constricted neck, painted in polychrome. The decoration occupies two bands, set off from each other by a glyph* border about two-thirds of the way up the body. The lower band is divided into six panels, three of which contain seated personages elaborately dressed and carrying ceremonial objects in the left hand. These panels, painted brick red and black on a pale orange ground, alternate with fluted panels, painted brick red. The upper band is decorated with a line of seated personages wearing peaked turbans and separated one form the other by serpent and feathered motifs. The colors repeat those of the lower band. Inside the rim is a wide band of pale orange with a line of stylized heads with towering, paddle-shaped headdresses. Restored. * Glyphs are pseudo-glyphs — Bowl, c. 800-1200 CE
Maya

G260

Tan vessel with a geometric design painted on with black pigment. — Pot (Olla), c. 1000-1300
Ancestral Pueblo

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covered pot with incised design around dome-shaped lid, central knob with hole through center; body has straight sides rising from sharply slanting bottom; 4 decorative rectangles with incised design on sides; pottery-beige clay with burnished brown slip — Serving Vessel, c. 600-900 CE
Maya

G260

Double-spout vase painted in polychrome with two couchant winged figures. The heads wear an elaborate coiled headdress tipped with plant forms that spring from other parts of the body and from the serpent staff held in left hand of figure. Painted face with long projecting tongue. Wings of figures are decorated with human heads and terminate in feathers. — Vessel, 1st century BCE - 6th century CE
Nasca

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Cup with trophy heads; polychrome earthenware; Peru, Nazca, VIc.; No Dims on Cat. Cards Cup with slightly flaring mouth painted in polychrome with four rows of trophy heads. — Vessel, 6th century
Nasca

G255

Spherical Jar decorated with a horizontal band showing two figures against a background of conventionalized lines representing water. Polychrome painting. Rounded bottom, stand. — Bowl with Swimmer Motifs, 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

G255

Vase in the from of a chieftain with ear plugs and large headdress. Arms bound in back indicate the status of a prisoner. — Vessel, 6th-8th century
Moche

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Vessel with figure band painted around the outside and interior is painted as well. Red, brown and orange throughout. — Vase, c. 800 - 900 CE
Maya

G260

Pot in form of Fish with a double spout handle rising from the back. Slight modelling on head, tail, and fin area. Other features painted in grey, black, yellow, red and white. Broken at tail; cracked around head. — Vessel in the Form of a Fish, c. 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

G260

Tripod effigy vessel, large, with the head of a jaguar in high relief. Two legs, finished at the base of the neck with rigid ring handles formed of the jaguar's front legs, represent the hind legs and are pierced and contain pellets. The third support, in the form of a flattened tail, emerges from the back of the vessel. The jaguar head, an oblong, bib-like area below, the legs, and a wide band at the throat, are painted in polychrome with geometric designs on an orange ground. High polish. — Vessel, c. 1100 - 1200 CE
Guanacaste

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Olla, red and black on buff, with a design of scrolls on a horizontally hatched ground, triangles, and stepped motifs. Bottom scorched, paint worn in some areas, Casas Grandes type, rim restored. Ramos polychrome. Tardio phase. — Pot (Olla), c. 1000-1300
Paquimé (Casas Grandes)

G255

round bodied vessel with rounded bottom; handle with spout; decorated with incised stylized face made of geometric shapes, in black, yellow, red and white — Double spout Vessel, c. 900-200 BCE
Paracas

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round plate, two holes with two leather hangers at top; cream ground with brown and black design; 3/4 portrait of masked figure holding two feathers in each hand and gesturing to the PL; figure wears mask with elaborate headdress; double ring around outside of painting — Polacca Plate, c. 1890
Nampeyo

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concave underside; outward-flaring sides with rounded small shoulder; short wide neck with wide mouth; scalloped mouth opening; rust red stripe at bottom of body; cream-colored area at top decorated with floral and geometric designs in dark brown, rust red and maroon--large floral designs with rectangular element at center with zigzags — Pot, c. 1850-1860
Acoma Pueblo

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concave foot with sides flaring outward to rounded shoulder; short, inward flaring neck; white body with brown geometric designs; band of designs with stepped triangle motifs on neck; body decorated with two identical designs of pairs of spirals and zigzags separated by vertical strips with squared-off spirals and triangles — Pot, c. 1930
probably Acoma Pueblo

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squat jar with wide shoulder and inward turning rim on short, wide neck; concave underside; white body with brown geometric and some foliate forms with four red-orange crescent shapes--repeating motifs include checkerboard and teardrop-shaped floriform motif — Pottery, c. 1880-1920
probably Acoma Pueblo

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orange ceramic with metallic fleck; tear drop shape with skinny opening at top; openwork with circle pattern through out — Pot, 2015
Hubert Candelario

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white ground with four rows of squared swirls in tight linear maze pattern; wide, round shape with no neck and small mouth — Mazes Seed Pot, 2014
Franklin Peters

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wide shouldered vessel with no neck and wide mouth and slim foot; dark glossy red ground with deeply incised swirl pattern that is matte in the crevices — Santa Clara Pot, 2015
Effie Garcia

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FJS #43; two quadrupeds on inner surface, painted with brown pigment on white slip — Bowl, c. 1000-1150
Mimbres

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FJS #105; six concentric lines around upper inside of rim; large flounder-like fish at bottom inside of bowl — Bowl, c. 1050-1150
Mimbres

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Squatting male figure, with PL hand on knee and PR hand on thigh; short hair in circular curls; brown lines on face, arms, chest, stomach, legs and buttocks — Figure, c. 800-1100
Guanacaste

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plate, standing man, ceramic, Mexican-Guatemalan — Plate, c. 500-800 CE
Maya

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Bowl, wide-mouthed, with a shaped painted band representing two owls, wings outspread, around the rim. The painting is in grey, black, orange, and buff on a cream slip ground. Jar cracked vertically on one side. — Bowl, 11th-14th century
Chorotega

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Seed Jar, Iris Youvella Nampeyo — Seed Jar, c. 1980-2000
Iris Youvella Nampeyo

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red, polished — Pot (Olla), 1990
Tina Garcia Trujillo

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standing figure, heroic size; figure is bulky, with beast-like feet slightly arched, and stunted arms, the left bent, hand on stomach, the right bent up to hold a jar on the right shoulder; narrow head with long pointed chin, large hooked nose with plug, bulbous eyes, and huge round ear plugs pierced in the center; the figure wears a flat band headdress, bracelets, an epaulette on the left shoulder, and a sashed skirt with geometric patterns painted in polychrome; details of body also painted — Figure, c. 100-200
Nayarit

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Stirrup-handle jar with painted design of a mythical creature, half fish, half jaguar, in rust red on the panel of cream slip covering one half of the jar. — Vessel, 5th-6th century
Moche

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Bird Effigy Pot,polychrome earthenware,Mexico Casas Grandes,XIIc. Red, black, and brown on cream slip, coffee bean eyes, upturned tail, parrot beak — Bird Effigy Pot, c. 1000-1300
Paquimé (Casas Grandes)

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White body with black curving geometric designs. Red foot. Eight black downward facing triangles around rim. Horizontal band of diamond shapes and vertical lines around shoulder of vessel. — Pot (Olla), c. 1890-1900
Zia Pueblo

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Large vessel painted with black and white geometric designs — Pot (Olla), c. 1860
Haak'u (Acoma Pueblo)

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Caddoan Bottle, earthenware, North American, Mississippian Culture, XII-XVc. — Bottle, c. 1250-1499
Caddo Mississippian

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Bottle in form of a Woman's figure holding a human head . Upper body of polished cream slip. Lower area of dark red with a band of stylized human heads painted in polychrome. Nose, teeth arms, and accessory head modelled, other details painted. The spout, emerging from back of shoulders, is a bridged to top of head by a narrow band which forms the handle of jug. Rounded bottom, stand. — Vessel in the form of a man, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE
Nasca

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Pot (Olla), Chorotega — Pot (Olla), c. 300 - 799 BCE
Chorotega

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Double spout water jar decorated in polychrome with two large fishes in their mouths. Frieze of peppers below. — Vessel, 100 BCE- 600 CE
Nasca

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Jar modeled in three sections, representing fruits, with three loop handles attached to base of spout. Burnished surface decorated with vertical panels of stylized birds alternating with panels of horizontal zigzag lines in black on a brown ground. — Vessel in the form of vegetables, 6th-15th century
Lambayeque

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Jar, aryballos type, with two handles near base. A diminutive animal head in relief appears at the base of the neck. The front of the body is decorated with vertical panels separated by narrow bands, painted with lozenge and sawtooth motifs in red, black, mauve and white. The flaring neck is painted with horizontal bands of elongated lozenges in red and black, and under the rim is a border of reciprocal sawtooth pattern in the same colors. The back of the jar is painted brick red with a band of interlocking 'X' forms extending half-way around the shoulders. Aryballos (MWS) — Vessel, 15th century
Inca

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tan with two brown bands around center; hole top center surrounded by brown box-shape; symmetrical brown and blue designs on each side of box-shape — Seed Jar, c. 1900
Nampeyo

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polychromed ceramic — Plate, c. 550 - 950 CE
Maya

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polychrome; orange-brown ground; interior black circle surrounded by white band, cross inside circle (black and white); exterior black band at top and middle, white band of decoration between black bands — Bowl, c. 1350-1400
Four Mile

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Round-bottomed bowl; red with serpent/bird in brown and white at interior; brown rim with white linear design on interior and white zigzag flanked by brown stripes on exterior — Bowl, c. 1100-1300
Four Mile

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Large vase with a figure in relief representing the god of corn, standing between two peaks of the Sierras. This symbolical representation of the mountain peaks grew out of the fact that often only patch of snow on them are visible at a distance. Shape Vicus (?). — Jar, 4th century
Moche

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Pot in the form of a warrior in full regalia. Painted details on costume and face. — Vessel, 5th-6th century
Moche

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unpainted — Figure, c. 300-799 CE
Chorotega

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Stirrup-handle jar in the form of a llama with saddle bags slung over back. The body and saddle bags are painted terra cotta color with details of head, halter, and binding ropes in buff. Ears in relief, featues slightly modelled. — Effigy vessel, 200-600
Moche

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Double-spout vase with a band carrying two Pumas painted in polychrome on a white ground. Note the spotted body of the Puma and the long projecting tongue, characteristic of this beast in Nazca pottery and textiles. — Vessel, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE
Nasca

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Stirrup-handle jar with a crab modelled in full relief on top. The crab is painted in reddish brown with details in cream on a cream slip ground. Lower part of jar painted in the same reddish brown and burnished. — Vessel with Lobster Motif, 400-499
Moche

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Beaker with painted frieze of long-necked white birds and snakes. Rounded bottom, stand. — Beaker, 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

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cylindrical vase, turning slightly inward at mouth; body stamped with circles containing 3 dots; 2 adult monkeys, incised and painted, each with a baby on its back; one monkey holds a large orange fruit — Vase, c. 450-700 CE
Maya

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Jug, stirrup handle, painted.with a design of two running messengers, in full regalia, carrying weapons and wearing elaborate puma-head helmets. The area between the warriors is filled with the spreading wints fanning out behind each body. The design is in rust red on a cream slip, and the red is used on a series of double lines decorating the spout and the stirrup handle. Handle repaired. Something inside of jug, perhaps loose debris. — Vessel, c. 400 BCE - 599 CE
Moche

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Large ovoid jar representing a crouching human figure whose head forms neck of vase. All details except nose and turban headdress painted in polychrome on polished red ground. Rounded bottom, stand. — Vessel, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE
Nasca

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Large cup or bowl with slightly flared mouth and all-over design of checked and plain squares about 1/2 in. in area alternating in rows around sides. Such purely geometrical designs are rare in Nazca pottery. — Large cup, 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

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Bird-shaped whistle-vase with a single upright spout emerging from the back and connected by a handle with the head. The eyes of the bird are painted, but the beak is modelled. Across the breast a double row of worms painted in polychrome. Highly conventionalized wings painted on each side. Tiahuanico influence. — Vessel in the Form of a Bird, c. 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

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Large head with wide flattened brow and painted face. The enormous, thin nose, ears, and pointed chin are in full relief. The mouth is a narrow slit with black lips; the almond shaped eyes and thin eyebrows are painted. A triangular area, extending from beneath the eyes to the chin on each side of the nose, is painted red. Cheeks edged with black paint, possibly representing a beard. Wavy vertical lines of black on back of skull represent hair, as does the line of black across the forehead. The figure wears a brick red skullcap. Surface highly burnished. The size of this example makes it an important one. Schoeler says: early Nazca--MWS. — Effigy vessel, 650-799
Nasca

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Large water jar with stirrup handle and a linear conch shell painted in brown on a deep cream ground on the shoulders below the handle. Two brown lines extend over the top of the jar on the handle axis. An unusually elegant design. The jar is cracked on one side. — Vessel, 5th-6th century
Moche

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Portrait vase with stirrup handle. The vase represents a seated man, knees drawn up to chin and gripped with the hands. The modelling of the head, covered with a close-fitting cap, is bold an vigorous, with the melancholy expression conveyed with great skill. The rudimentary modelling of the limbs emphasizes the powerful realism of the head. — Effigy vessel, 6th century
Moche

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Portrait vase representing the head of warrior with three scars on his face. The head is closely wrapped in a scarf that ties under the chin and is bound by a band around the forehead. The expression of the face reflects clearly the suffering of the wounded man. — Portrait vessel, 6th century
Moche

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Jar in the form of a man's head painted in polychrome to represent a mummy mask. Top of head draped in a turban. Rounded bottom, stand. — Effigy vessel, 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

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Jar with rounded base in the form of a human figure wearing a puma mask. Details of the face in relief, and arms, holding a club and a trophy head in front of the body, in low relief. Two toed- rectangles indicate feet at bottom of body. Details of face, arms, trophy head, feet, and a garment hanging over the shoulders in back, painted in red, brown, grey, and white on buff slip ground. Single spout handle. Burnished. — Figure, 100 BCE - 600 CE
Nasca

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Shallow bowl mounted on squat tripod legs decorated with stylized animal masks slightly modelled and painted in polychrome. Interior of bowl decorated with a fantastic mask in polychrome red, black, tan. Inner rim carries a band of geometric designs painted in polychrome. Restored. — Shallow tripod bowl, 8th century
Nicoya

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black vessel with metallic sheen; wide body with short but wide neck — Nambe Pot, 2015
Robert Vigil

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Small Seed Jar,earthenware, North America, Mississippian Culture, XII-XVc. — Seed Jar, c. 1250-1499
Mississippian

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Water jar with a bulbous body and short neck. Around the body a band of geometric design in red and black known as the alligator pattern. From the top of the band project four hook motifs in red bordered with black. Small handle of dissolved animal shape. Body badly cracked — Water jar, 900-1499
Ngäbe or Guaymí

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Jar with two bands of designs in black on red. The so-called 'lost color' ware. — Jar, 14th century
Ngäbe or Guaymí

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Stirrup-handle jar with painted decoration of a rooster in rust red on cream slip. — Stirrup-handle jar, 5th-6th century
Moche

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Black and White Pot #3, 2014

Paula Estevan

G259

Vessel, c. 1500

Ugahxpa (Quapaw)

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