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| 019 Acoma Pueblo, c. 1860 - 1880 |
 An Acoma origin for this jar is indicated by the light color of the clay body, as seen below the flaked-off areas in the four-fold split-leaf pattern at the left of the figure. Although the form of this jar suggests an earlier date, there are various design features that point toward manufacture in the latter half of the 1800's. One of these is the diagonally split rectangle, with four red ones and one black one arranged in the unusual form of a cross. Another is the multi-petal flower edged with tiny black dots. It is significant that the ends of the black-edged splits in the rectangles are not connected. The gaps in edging are likely related to the line gaps left intentionally in the encircling framing lines of many Pueblo Indian vessels, and to the edging-line gaps within the ¡ÈGreek-key" motifs in Figs. 26 and 28.
--Francis Harlow - Los Alamos |
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