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Large pot with flaring midsection and tapering shoulder; decorated with incised textured half-circles below mouth and band of leaf-like shapes alternating with 4 triangles between 3 textured bands — Beer pot, mid 20th century
Zulu

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reddish ceramic jar with incised decoration on four sides; groove design feature, around lip indicates the jar has a screw on cover — Chocolate Pot, c. 750
Maya

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Small seated dog with short pointed ears and a short tail, curling over on top; uneven incised eyes — Dog, c.100-300 CE
Colima

G260

Vessel, Kurumba — Vessel, mid 20th century
Kurumba

G254

vessel with wide mouth and slightly wider shoulder with slim foot; rim has dip in one side; rim is black and quickly fades to terracotta color; black flecks in terracotta color; glossy around rim and matte finish on bottom; in cotton bag — Japanese Inspired Ceramic, 2015
Jody Folwell

G259

vessel in the form of a coati-mundi seated on its haunches and holding its forepaws to its mouth to nibble something; the back of the head is incised to represent fur; brownish surface much worn — Vessel, c. 200 BCE-200 CE
Colima

G260

Hodges Water Bottle, Earthenware, North America (Arkansas) — Bottle, c. 1100-1299
Caddo Mississippian

G260

dark greyish-brown; slightly rounded bulbous foot; round body with low shoulder; rounded neck with slightly outward-flaring mouth; incised wave-like, curving patterns on body — Vessel, c. 1300-1600
Mississippian

G260

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

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

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

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

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)

G260

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

G259

large vessel with rounded base; flaring outward to pointed shoulder and inward to slightly raised mouth rim; shades of mottled black and grey; three red-orange semicircles above shoulder — Beer pot, mid 20th century
Nyakyusa

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Earthenware handled jug, black with incised line designs on top half. — Jug, mid 20th century
Lwena

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round vessel with small flat base; 2 spouts on top joined with triangular handle perforated with circular holes; top half of body decorated with small applied 'buttons', linear designs and texturizing — Vessel, mid 20th century
Unknown

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Round body with rounded bottom; tapering to a narrow, long neck which flares out at the mouth; red body with six incised lines around mouth and two incised lines around shoulder flanking a zigzagged band in brown and tan — Vessel, about 14th century
Djenne

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Round-bodied jar with small, short foot; opening for lid has 2 notches; lid has large knob; jar covered overall with rows of protruding nubs; nubs on lid and sides of knob — Jar with lid, mid 20th century
Lobi

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round bodied container; wide mouth, slightly flaring outward; pair of thick, upward-pointing handles; curved lines separating reddish top of pot from texturized darker bottom — Vessel, mid 20th century
Nuna or Gurunsi

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pair of figures, earthenware, fired clay — Joined Figures, 200 BCE - 400 CE
Jalisco

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Caddoan Effigy Bottle, earthenware, North America, Mississippian Culture — Bowl, c. 1100-1500
Mississippian

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Vessel, supported on two bulbous feet and the end of a long handle in the form of a gourd. Body, ridged at lower belly, carries three pierced Ceremonial incense burner, Monte Alban III. step-motifs above the two front legs. Wide flaring lip. Vessel surface covered with clay, but handle shows a burnished brown slip over a pale body. Traces of a pained design in red show on the gourd foot and the rim. Badly cracked at rim. — Cermonial incense burner, 12th-15th century
Mixtec

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Bowl, ceramic, Mexican-Guatemalan (Mayan), VII-IXc cat. card dims H. 3 Dia. 6-3/4' NO PHOTO ON CAT. CARD — Bowl with Geometric Design, 7th-9th century
Maya

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Standing Female Figure with diamond eyes, single strap headband, necklace, flat small earplugs, beige clay — Standing female figure, 200-700
Michoacán

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Group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .1 (199/1) L.7/8, Diam. 2-1/4 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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Bowl, Mississippian — Bowl, c. 1100-1500
Mississippian

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .5 (199/5) L.3/4, Diam. 1-7/8 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .6 (199/6) L.7/8, Diam. 2-1/4 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .4 (199/4) L.3/4, Diam. 1-7/8 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .7 (199/7) L.3/4, Diam. 1-7/8 in — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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burnished terracotta, in the from of a pumpkin held up by three Parrot shaped feet — Vessel, c. 300 BCE-200 CE
Colima

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .2 (199/2) L.3/4, Diam. 1-5/8 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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One in a group of seven spindle whorls, having incised designs, some on top, bottom and sides, others on top and sides ceramic. .3 (199/3) L.3/4, Diam. 1-5/8 in. — Spindle Whorl, one of seven, Date Unknown
Mexico

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flat bottom; rounded lower portion of vessel; narrow shoulder; tall, wide neck; outward-flaring mouth ring rim; glossy black — Pot, c.1920
possibly Acoma Pueblo

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two figures lying one of top of the other, face to face, on bundled bedding, with a flat planar blanket on top of them; heads, arms and hands visible; figures wrapped in fragments of cloth with various textures--some with Hebrew text fragments; unglazed clay — Sleepers, 1979
Georges Jeanclos

G362

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

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

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

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

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
Virgil Ortiz

G261a

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

G261a

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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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

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

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

G260

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

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1-1/8 in. mouth opening at top, 16 ridges extending from mouth to base spiraling downward to the right; micaceous clay body — Swirl Pot, 1995
Hubert Candelario

G259

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

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

G259

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

G260

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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dog shape, with rounded body; thick, tapered tube-shaped tail; small head with large, protruding teeth; small, upright pointed ears; light orange, dark orange and white pigment designs — Vessel, c. 1500
Ugahxpa (Quapaw)

G260

glossy black; concave bottom; outward-flaring sides; rounded shoulder; wide neck with wide outward-flaring mouth ring with slightly indentations/scalloping — Pot, c. 1920-1940
Maria Martinez

G259

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 crevasses — Santa Clara Pot, 2015
Effie Garcia

G259

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

G260

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

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

G259

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

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

G259

fragment of bowl showing part of a deeply incised design in an incised circle. Plae clay body with a very thin pale blue glaze which has been almost obliterated by chemical action of the soil. Wheel mark on base. One of 22 fragments of Kuan (Imperial) ware found at Black Turtle Hill. see note 36.10.1 — Fragment, 1127-1279
China

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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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glossy black; small concave base with outward-flaring sides; rather steep shoulder; short neck with wide mouth opening; shoulder and neck decorated with grey geometric designs--triangle, bars, squared-off spirals — Pot, c. 1920-1950
Maria Martinez

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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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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

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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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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

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

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globular vessel, flat base, stirrup with centrally located vertical spout; 2 raised deer figures on cream slip background; base, deer, and spouts polished red clay — Globular vessel, 8th-10th century
late Moche

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Crenshaw Canoe Bowl, earthenware, North American, Mississippian Culture,XII-XVc; (found at Stokes Place, Pike county, Arkansas) — Canoe Bowl, c. 1150-1499
Mississippian

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Large Vessel with wide body. White/tan in color with a back painted design. Black band around the shoulder of the vessel. — Pot (Olla), c. 1875-1880
Zia Pueblo

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Beaker with painted frieze of long-necked white birds and snakes. Rounded bottom, stand. — Beaker, 100 BCE - 600 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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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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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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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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standing figure, with abbreviated flipper-like arms, hole in top of head; protruding ears; enlarge thighs; grey clay with traces of red pigment — Standing figure, c. 1150-500 BCE
Morales

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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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FJS #114; bulbous body with narrow neck; dark-brown, elongated triangular patterning (feather motif) on yellowed white slip — Pot (Olla), c. 1850-1890
probably Haak'u (Acoma Pueblo)

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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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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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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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flat, wide, disc shaped pot with small round mouth; painted square detail around mouth with one geometric bird design below each side, for a total of four birds; orange ground with black and terra cotta detail — Hopi Tewa Pot, 2015
Deborah Clashin

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7-piece sculpture; 7 tall, totemic towers a: tiered, brown with protruding nipples; b: wedge-shaped, orange and brown, with rectangular and circular cutouts; c: tan with geometric cutouts and rounded shape; d: speckled green with geometric incised designs; e: tan and brown, irregular tiered rectangular with painted areas; f: orange slabs with protruding nipples, tan geometric painting on top; g: dark brown, tiered, rectangular, with geometric cutouts — Our Homes Ourselves, 1999
Nora Naranjo Morse

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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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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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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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unpainted — Figure, c. 300-799 CE
Chorotega

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