Native American, Southwestern United States, southwest New Mexico, villages in southern Cibola Anasazi / northern Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, ca. 875 to 1050 CE. A lovely pottery pitcher with a planar base, an apple-shaped body with a rounded shoulder, a gently flared neck, and a wide handle arching off the verso. Formed via the traditional Anasazi coil-and-scrape technique, this vessel features a series of steps and zigzags along the neck, parallel bars on the handle, and intricate spiraling bands of solid and fretted motifs, all painted in jet-black pigment atop the white-gray ground. Size: 6.3" W x 6.125" H (16 cm x 15.6 cm)

Tularosa pottery from the Starkweather Ruin has been divided into three styles - Wingate, Snowflake and Tularosa - reflecting similarities in decoration with their source types. Classic Tularosa Style designs are based on spirals, a diagnostic feature of the type. However, the spiral-stairstep motif that we see in this example is considered to be the most advanced development.

Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, purchased in 2000; ex-Richard Mynatt collection, found near Reserve, Arizona, USA

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#169093

Repaired from multiple pieces, with restoration to a few areas of rim and body, and resurfacing with overpainting along new material; small chips and losses and light adhesive residue along most break lines. Light abrasions and fading to original pigment, with fire-darkening in scattered areas, and chips to handle, body, rim, and base. Nice preservation to original pigment in most areas. Old inventory number written beneath base.