Native American, Southwest, Southern Colorado Plateau, Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo, Mancos, ca. 980 to 1150 CE. A handsome pottery pitcher hand-painted with bold designs that exemplify the Mancos black-on-white type. Sitting upon a concave base, the ancient vessel presents a bulbous body surmounted by a tall, tubular neck with a lightly flared rim and a ribbon-form handle connecting neck to shoulder. The exterior displays a horizontal band of geometric symbols, while the neck is enveloped in a register of steppe motif and a series of meander and steppe designs travel vertically down the handle. Note the bluish tint of the slip - a typical characteristic of pottery vessels found north and west of Mesa Verde. Size: 5.25" Diameter x 6.1" H (13.3 cm x 15.5 cm)

According to the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies Pottery Typology Project, "Mancos Black-on-white was named by Gladwin (1934) and first described by Martin(1936). This type encompasses a very wide range of design styles and technological variability as compared to many other later Pueblo II types (Abel 1955; Breternitz et al 1974; Hayes 1964; Hayes and Lancaster 1974; Oppelt 1992; Reed 1958; Rohn 1977; Wilson and Blinman 1995). For example, Mancos Black-on-white subsumes design styles used to define the Cibola tradition types Gallup Black-on-white, Chaco Black-on-white, Escavada Black-on white and Puerco Black-on-white; the Chuska tradition types Chuska Black-on-white, Toadalena Black-on-white, Burnham Black on white; the Kayenta tradition types Black Mesa Black-on-white, Sosi Black-on-white, Dogoszhi Black-on-white, and the Rio Grande type Kwahe'e Black on white. Differences in the number of Pueblo II types distinguished in the different Anasazi regions is a reflection more of archaeological classification conventions than of stylistic variability in the Northern San Juan region. Mancos Black on-white was first produced during the last decades of the tenth century and is the dominant white ware type in assemblages dating from A.D. 1000 through about A.D. 1150 (Wilson and Blinman 1995). After A.D. 1150, McElmo Black-on-white replaces Mancos Black on white."

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Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection; ex-Robert Leighton collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, purchased in 1967, and originally excavated in Delores County, Colorado, USA

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#181989

Professionally repaired and restored with repainting over break lines; all very well done and difficult to notice. Some light chipping to rim, as well as nicks and abrasions to surface, all commensurate with age. Otherwise, very nice presentation with good pigments. Underside of base is inscribed with old collection number next to old collection label.