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Native repairs on a pottery vessel is an indication of its importance to the owner as an item with which she would have need for household use.  Minor cracks can be stabilized on a dough bowl such as this one by wrapping a wire or rawhide around the rim as a cinch.  Additionally, the crack or cracks can be covered in piñon pitch as a sealant to prevent eventual chipping and worsening of the crack.  This historic pottery bowl has both remedies.  There is wire wrapped around the bowl just under the rolled-out rim and it has an elaborate hooking tie.  There are remnants of piñon pitch over three vertical rim cracks.  Most of the piñon has fallen off but enough remains to identify it. 

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