Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds party ware typically prior to the beginning

typically prior to the beginning of a hunt--hence the fox head

I believe cedar

This is the sort of object one wants to arrange other things around

A great addition to a collection of fine baskets or Native American objects

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Unusual Hand-Painted Pottery Vase With Large Birds party ware typically prior to the beginningI find this tall, textured black vase featuring two large, long necked birds (emu?) extremely intriguing. The expressive but subtly rendered brown, yellow and pinkish birds one on each side of the vase at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms, but then there they are, heads to the ground amidst green grass and pink flowers. With gold banding at rim and base, the whole piece feels surrealistic an unusual and compelling object and