Salt Red Bowl

Small hemispherical Salt Red bowl. Exterior surface has a thick orange red slip that is polished with visible paddle facets from shaping and small fireclouds from the firing process. Interior surface is smudged black with visible unpatterned polishing marks, creating lustrous finish, but with many of anvil depressions. This bowl was found in a habitation area of the Pueblo Grande site. Pueblo Grande was a large village site located at the headgates of a major canal system occupied as early as AD 500, reaching its greatest size during the Classic Period. Museum Accession: 1996.17