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| 013 Acoma Pueblo, c. 1900 - 1910 |
 In contrast to the dominant birds on the other Acoma pots in this folio, this one cannot be identified as a parrot. Its beaks are straight, its head crest is attached, much as on the secondary bird shown in Fig. 2; these are not parrot attributes in Acoma symbology. The double open areas on the body are often seen on birds depicted at Zia Pueblo. They are related to the double bumps in the four-pointed figures at far left and right on this jar, where the pairs of bumps are separated by thin vertical lines; three decades earlier a similar figure (from which this one evolved) shows double bumps separated by a row of tiny dots. This seems like a minor point, but details like this combine to help date the period of manufacture. Double and triple bumps also occur as caps on the feather symbols attached to the lower boundaries of the rainbow arcs. In addition to the little sprig of berries supporting the bird, the only other foliage occurs as split leaves near the bottom and top of the design area.
--Francis Harlow - Los Alamos |
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