Small Acoma Pueblo New Mexico Dark Brown and White Pottery Bowl fruit I love the black hair

I love the black hair

which operated from 1859 to 1899--so the toy is well over a hundred years old

or even a tusk-less walrus

just missing glass panes

Small Acoma Pueblo New Mexico Dark Brown and White Pottery Bowl fruit I love the black hairThis is a gorgeous little Acoma Pueblo Native American bowl from New Mexico, circa 1940s, I believe. I've really fallen in love with the relatively simple but dynamic surface decoration on traditional Acoma pottery, which this bowl perfectly exemplifies in the interplay of solid forms, stripes, and negative space made all the better by the contrasting terra cotta colored rim. Really lovely. A repair of a small break along the lip was made to this bowl