Southwestern USA, southwestern New Mexico, southeast Arizona, and northern Chihuahua region of Mexico, Mogollon culture, ca. 1000 to 1150 CE. A fantastic, large orange-brown pottery olla from the high desert of the Reserve Indented Corrugated style. This is a style made with great skill, requiring the coils to be prepared by being carefully indented with a finger; this would help them consolidate. As you can see around the neck of this vessel, the corrugations are finger indented at regular, very small intervals. Many of the type examples we know of come from the Starkweather Ruin in New Mexico. The artists responsible for creating pottery vessels like this were women, and many Mogollon women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools. This olla stands on has a rounded base, meaning it was made to be placed into a sandy floor; it also has a very slightly rolled rim. Size: 10.2" W x 11.85" H (25.9 cm x 30.1 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Private Arizona collection

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Small chips to rim and small crack along coil line.