#FrogFriday: tadpole bowls!
Sikyatki Ware bowls w/tadpole motifs Ancestral Pueblo, Arizona, 1400-1625CE
Top: Penn Museum 29-77-655 Bottom: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2018.710
While frog iconography can be found in many cultures around the world, the Southwest Culture Area is one of the few I've found where tadpoles also regularly appear. I'll be featuring these two pieces in my presentation on frog iconography in the Pacific NW & American SW at SECAC2023 next week!












