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| 026 Acoma Pueblo, C. 1900 |
 The classical Acoma parrot on this jar is much like the bird on the jars in Figs. 24 and 2, but differs in several significant ways. It has only two tail feathers, each bearing a large circular area near the tip. Even more unusual is the attachment of the wings to the crest above the head instead of to the body. Note that these same features occur on the reversed-color parrots on the jar in Fig. 28. Indeed the two jars are almost identical in many of the other features of design, which makes it seem likely that both were painted by the same artist. The ¡ÈGreek-key" meander at the bottom of the design area resembles somewhat the lowest design panel on the jar in Fig. 3, but has one minor feature that seems to be of particular significance on vessels from Acoma, and also from Zia and Santa Ana Pueblos. This feature is easily overlooked; it is the tiny gap in the edging that occurs at the interior extremities of the lines in the keys. It seems likely that this feature, which often occurs between the tail feathers of birds at Zia Pueblo, is related to the shoulder-line gap on the Zuni jar in Fig. 5.
-- FRANCIS H. HARLOW, LOS ALAMOS |
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