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Southwestern USA, Southwestern New Mexico, Southeast Arizona, and Northern Chihuahua region of Mexico, Mogollon culture, ca. 1000 to 1150 CE. A charming miniature hand-built grey pottery olla of a rounded form with a slightly flared rim, its form of the Reserve Indented Corrugated style. This technique requires immense skill. Each coil was carefully indented with the potter's finger at remarkably regular, tight intervals - a step that contributed to the integrity of the form as well. The rounded base suggests that this vessel was made to be set in a sandy floor. The artists responsible for creating pottery vessels like this one were usually women. Many Mogollon women have been found in burials accompanied by pottery making tools. Size: 3" W x 2.7" H (7.6 cm x 6.9 cm)

Provenance: ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, 1962-1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, from 1958-1962

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#147989

Intact, with light surface wear commensurate with age. Nice deposits on surface. Handwritten collection number on underside.