Featured S.W.N.A. (Hopi?) Round-Bottom Bowl, Burnished Inside & Out

Max width ~5", inside rim ~4", height ~2 1/2"; weight ~11 oz.
The white speckles in pic 5 look suspiciously like paint-roller splatter...I don't think my skills are up to even an attempt at their removal.

Particularly attractive for me, an' probably a large factor in my purchase (mid-90's, Susanville California, iirc) is that there are eleven diagonal panels. I am strongly drawn to odd-numbered divisions of a circle in artifacts from the hands of humans, globally...an' there are a surprising number of them out there!

There was no attribution with it when acquired; Google image yielded the possibility for it being of Hopi origin.
@komokwa, what say you?
Thanks, all, for lookin'!

 

this one is above my pay grade.......
I don't see NA though..

from here the white speckles look like surface scuffs from the bowl being in contact with a hard surface.....

 

Weirder than that, komo...I just put a loupe to it, an' found that each of those white spots are in the clay beneath the slip-coat, an' have 'erupted' through it, perhaps in the final firing. Very tiny dead-white crystalline grains in the clay...but only in about 1/5th of the diameter, a pie-wedge shaped area ~4" by ~2 1/2" or so. There are a few others, randomly distributed an' similarly caused, elsewhere.
There's also some faint writing on the bottom, an' I'll try to capture that in a pic...it'll get posted here if I succeed.

 

Not Hopi.

The colors are a little too intense / bright, but the pattern at least looks Acoma to me. There was a period in the 1960's when Acoma potters struggled with 'spalling' as impurities in the clay caused mini explosions in the surface while firing. I can't see clearly enough to tell if that's what happening here.

Acoma pots are usually thin, and light, and make a high bell-like sound when you click them with your fingernail.

Is it heavy?

 

Well, 11 oz...for a bowl that size...seems about right, but I don't know how to assess its weight. It is fairly high-fired, an' does sound good when 'pinged' with a knuckle. I wouldn't say it was thin...so probably not Acoma. Thanks, PP!

 

The design looks very similar to an Isleta bowl illustrated in the book by Allan Hayes and John Blom - Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni. pg. 77.

 

For anyone without access to that book, here is page 77.

 

Very Good, Books...I'm gonna chase that down. Thank you!

 

Love your new avatar photo, whit.

 

Thank you, AJ!
@komokwa made me do it!

 

Made..... is such a strong word .....

 

Agreed, sir...Encouraged.
Let me please amend my comment to remove the force inherent in my previous, inappropriate characterization.

I had considered: De Devil made me do it.
Woulda, coulda...shoulda!

 

so...for just a moment there..... I was the Devil..?

Heck..... I've been called worse !!

Your new avatar is less aggressive and shows a Softer side to you...

I for one , welcome it !!

 

Aww...Shucks.

 

That certainly. The other one was rather off-putting.
This one is both sweet and fun.

 

No surprise really. Flower arrangers know to use an odd number of blooms. A bead necklace will look less appealing if there is no bead at the center instead of a split. Panel bracelets with an even number of panels arrange themselves into an awkward rectangle; with an odd number they are much closer to circular. And so on.

 

I hadn't considered any of those truths, Bronwen...tho' having them pointed out, they're obvious...an' ubiquitous. Thanks...