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Pinedale Black-on-white bowl

CULTURE:
Ancestral Pueblo
DATE:
1250–1350
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General Description

The artist of this bowl painted a figure over the entire interior surface. Based on the checkered design recalling corn kernels, the figure may represent an early form of corn maiden.

Excerpt from

Kimberly L. Jones, PhD, Hopi Visions: Journey of the Human Spirit, Label text, 2018.
Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan)
Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
Arizona (state/United States)
Cibola (inhabited place)
Cibola White Ware (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style)
Hopi
Pinedale (inhabited place)
Pinedale Black-on-White (ceramic type / Southwestern North American style)
Southwest (general region/United States)
Southwestern North American styles (Pre-Columbian)
black (color)
bowls (vessels)
ceramic (material)
checker pattern (checkerboard)
circles (plane figures)
clay
coiling (pottery technique)
corn (plant/zea mays species)
deities
dots (geometric motif)
female
fertility
figures (representations)
firing (technique)
funerary objects
geometric motifs
geometric patterns
geometric shape
goddess
growth
human figures
lines (geometric concept)
maize (plant/zea mays species)
modeling (forming)
mythical or legendary beings
paint (coating)
portable
rectangles (parallelograms)
ritual vessels
scrolls (spirals/motifs)
serving dishes
slip (clay)
slip glaze
spirals (geometric figures)
squares (geometric figures)
triangles (polygons)
vessels (containers)
white (color)
zigzags (geometric patterns)
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