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| 007 Acoma Pueblo, c. 1900 |
 The parrot on this jar also has its wings attached to the head crest, rather than to the body. The huge beaks attached to the parrots' heads in Figs. 2 and 3 are here much smaller, but nevertheless have the down-curved tips that are a necessary attribute for identification as a parrot. (In contrast, the smaller birds with straight beaks on the jars in Figs. 24 and 2 are certainly not meant to be identified as parrots.) The heart-shaped flowers with pairs of petals sprouting from the tips are especially characteristic of the depictions at Acoma, and occur much less often at, for example, Zia, where flowers are usually formed of two petals or a radiating array of four or more petals, as in Fig. 8. Longitudinally split leaves occur widely in Pueblo pottery designs from the early 1800's (before the flowing depictions of 1880 to the present).
-- FRANCIS H. HARLOW, LOS ALAMOS |
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