Cherokee Mississippian Spiro Mound Bowl by Roberta Wallace - SOLD

Award-winning Cherokee potter Roberta Wallace was inspired by pottery found at the Spiro Mounds archeological site in eastern Oklahoma when she made this beautiful bowl. The outside is decorated with a raised flying serpent design, and painted with swirls to represent wind and dots representing rain. The inside has been painted yellow, and a leaf design incised along the scalloped rim. It took First Place in Traditional Pottery at the Red Earth Festival in 2001.

 

For more information on Roberta Wallace, see our Highlight of the Month for October 2002.

 

Height 5 1/4", width 11"