Bowl -- Wide bowl of light colored clay with scraped out triangular red painted design on inside
Quapaw potters of the Protohistoric era extended the ceramics technology of the lower Mississippi River Valley and continued ancestral Mississippian themes in pottery design. Much of this pottery was painted with red, white and black pigments in elaborate interlocking designs or in stripes. Other pottery was finished as black or dark grayware that was incised and/or engraved with curvilinear and rectilinear designs. This vessel is an example of the Carson Red on Buff pottery type. Shell temper and Red paint on a buff surface characterizes Carson Red on Buff pottery.
Curatorial Remarks:
Carson Red on Buff (Phillips 1970:62, 63) bowl with painted red rim and interior with a triangular shape surrounded by three lines. Out-flaring rim, rounded lip, globular body and rounded circular base. 10R4/8 Red (paint), 7.5 YR7/6 Reddish Yellow (body).
Phillips, Philip. Archaeological Survey in the lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, 1949-1955. Vol. 60. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1970.
