#112, Mural

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Title: #112, Mural

Filenames: 38-206; mr155; Figure-78a-awa-r788-l7-ew; 38-205; mr149; mr150; Figure-78b-awa-r788-l7-ww

Abstract: Mural from Awatovi

Type: Mural

Site Name: Awatovi

Structure: Room 788

Design: 7

Source: Antelope Mesa

Other Keywords: Mural

Loc Detail: Fig. 78a&b - West & East Walls

Orientation: West, East

Exact Orientation: N 20 W

Context: Kiva

Note: Peabody fig. 78a & 78b (East and West Walls) Peabody fig. 78a (East Wall) This remnant is the counterpart of Design 7, Left Wall (fig. 78b), and supplements it, especially in providing a yellow face and head for the right- hand female figure in the center panel. In the upper part of the right panel is a very strange creature, evidently a quadruped, but with very ill- assorted anatomy. He is entirely black, with white accessories. From the position of the legs he would seem to be heading toward the left, an inference strengthened by the necklace worn at the end of his body. But instead of a head the body terminates in a tapering white tip, more like a tail. The other end is incomplete, but it suggests a cloud - terrace with four white bars below it such as appear in similar association below cloud- terrace finials on basebands, as in Room 529, Right Wall Design 1 (fig. 61), Room 788, Right and Left Walls Design 1 (fig. 81), and Room 528, Front Wall Design 1 (fig.68a), for example. On the animal` side is a small " shield ", white with a black four- pointed star in the center. Around this is a narrow zone of red spatter- work and several radiating yellow and white lines. In the left foot the creature holds a white ovoid object with two black diagonal lines, that may be a ceremonial eagle egg. Two attenuated animals are visible within the baseband. The one at the left is black with white markings and red outline. His unique tail turns upward ending in a red segment, and appears to sprout white, yellow, and red stalks. At the upper right the tail of another such animal appears, black with white markings. It ends in a triangular appendage with cross bars of yellow, red, and white. Peabody fig. 78b (West Wall) This fragment of Layout group I ( 2 ) displays little beyond the lower part of the center panel, but a partial reconstruction is possible by comparison with its counterpart on Right Wall Design 7 (fig. 78a), essentially the same design. The two portions supplement each other neatly. Two legless human figures rise from twin rainbow arches, whose four stripes are painted yellow (10 L 6), red (5 K 9), white and yellow. The skirts of the figures are decorated in vertical stripes of the same colors. The left- hand figure, which is probably a male, has a black torso, white necklace, and long black ear- pendants. He carries black gourd with white netting. The right- hand figure is a female, as indicated by her hair-do, and her face and body are yellow. She wears a white necklace with white and red gorget, and wears a mid- riff garment of black with the familiar open- work pattern of white lozenges enclosing black dots. In the right panel is a remnant of a white retangle, and scattered about haphazardly are small rectangles, each painted in two bars of red and yellow, perhaps rainbow symbols. Four very much attenuated animals appear within the white baseband, the center one being white with black outline and body markings, the right- hand one black with a rectangle on his side painted in three vertical bars of white, yellow, and red. The one at upper left is black with a star symbol on his side, and a red and yellow snout, and the one at upper right is also black. Behind the two human figures are long horizontal feather- like objects of white, outlined in black.

Multi Wall: Yes

Multi Wall Note: Design 7 on West Wall (mr155 - fig. 78b) with Design 7 on East Wall (mr149 & mr150 - fig. 78a).

Human element: Yes

Geometric element: Yes

Natural element: Yes

Animal element: Yes

Design elements: Human;Geometric;Natural;Animal