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Title: Small Undecorated Utilitarian Bowl
This small bowl almost has the feel of a stone metate or vessel for processing medication. It is heavy in weight, appears to have been incised with lines over the entire exterior surface and painted with red pigment. A single row of clay wraps around the vessel on the exterior. It is so tempting to assign a function to it as possibly having been a paint jar or a medicine vessel, but there certainly is no way to do so. It is what it was, whatever that might have been.
Condition: very good condition, with some unidentified residue on the interior.
Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust
Recommended Reading: Secrets of Casas Grandes, edited by Melissa S. Powell
Title: Small Undecorated Utilitarian Bowl
Potter Unknown
Category: Pre-Columbian or Prehistoric
Origin: Mexico
Medium: clay
Size: 2-1/2" deep x 3-1/2" diameter
Item # C3309G
