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| 017 Acoma Pueblo, c. 2000 |
 Like the ¡Èeye-dazzler" jar in Fig. 12, this pottery vessel was also decorated by Rebecca Lucario. The challenge in painting a surface that curves in two directions is to size the individual elements of design in such a way as to fit the same total number of them around the circumference at every vertical level. In addition, the placement must be so perfect as to give absolute continuity of line as observed from any angle. The oblique pathways at a nominal forty-five degrees from horizontal, for example, project S curves to the viewer that are faultless in their smooth contours and thereby create an image of roundness that does not occur with random patterns, as on the jar in Fig. 16. Even with this type of startling design innovation, we see the persistence of several traditional features: the form of the jar, the use of double framing lines at the bottom of the design area, and the application of red slip within the neck and below the lowest framing lines.
Francis Harlow - Los Alamos |
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