On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Jar
Not on view
The works now called Sikyatki pottery, created by ancestors of the present-day Hopi people, are thin- walled, high-fired, and meticulously polished. Sikyatki potters established elegant new shapes with a pale yellow surface bearing abstract representations in black, orange, red, and umber. The subject matter includes avian symbols and various emblematic designs representing earthly or cosmic phenomena. This jar was discovered in the mid-twentieth century under a rock ledge, intact and showing no signs of use.
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