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- Juanita
- bowl with Avanyu design, late 1800s–1998
- Where object was made: San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
- ceramic, carving, burnishing
- Object Height/Diameter: 9 x 17 cm
Object Height/Diameter: 3 1/2 x 6 11/16 in - Gift from the Security Benefit Group of Companies
- Not on display
- 2007.4652
- Juanita
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The globular bowl has a glossy red surface carved away to leave a serpent-like figure with a large triangular tongue and curlicue on the head, identified as Avanyu. There is also a band of semicircles at the rim, and the carving left a matte red field for the decorated band.