Santo Domingo Dough Bowl [SOLD]

This is a very traditional Santo Domingo Pueblo polychrome dough bowl dating from the 1900 to 1910 period. It features traditional rag-wiped bentonite slip, black rim around the top, and black double framing lines just under the rim and under the decorated area. The design is the traditional six-pointed stars encircling the body of the bowl.

What is unusual in this bowl is its shallow wall. It certainly is practical in that it is easier to work bread dough in a wide-mouth, shallow-wall bowl than one where the wall curves inward and is deep.

The bowl is in very good condition. It has been used for so long that most of the cream slip has been worn off on the interior, showing some of the original clay.

Provenance: Cody Wyoming Collection.