Object

32. Jar
  • Tsayutitsa(Zuni, ca. 1871-1959)
  • About 1930
  • Clay and paint
  • Evans Fund, 1933.187

Many Zuni pottery vessels are decorated with red and black designs painted on a white ground. Zuni artists delineated realistic and abstract animal forms over the entire surfaces of these wares. This particular jar is characterized by designs of deer with a red line extending from the mouth to the heart.