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Southwestern USA, east central Arizona/west southern New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)/Mogollon culture, ca. 1175 to 1325 CE. An excellent polychrome pottery bowl with a rounded base, bulbous body, and circular flared rim. The earthy red vessel is adorned with a puzzle-like motif painted in white on its exterior and a black maze-like motif, featuring several overlapping triangles creating the appearance of mountains, on its interior, as well as concentric circles encompassing the base. The Anasazi artisans of St. Johns were the first Anasazi potters to make polychrome pottery during the prehistoric period. Prior to this, pottery was either black-on-white or black-on-red. Boasting a smooth high-burnished surface, this polychrome vessel is a lovely utilitarian example from the Anasazi people. Size: 8.5" W x 4" H (21.6 cm x 10.2 cm)

The Mogollon people created pottery from iron-rich volcanic clays using the coil-and-scrape technique. The type is known primarily from the Pinedale Ruin, a settlement of approximately 200 rooms located near modern-day Show Low, Arizona, that was sadly lost to bulldozers in the 1970s. The people who lived at Pinedale would have been at the edges of the cultural sphere governed by Chaco Canyon, and by the time they created this bowl, lived a sedentary agricultural lifestyle. A bowl like this one may have held ground corn.

A slightly smaller but very similar example can be found at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology under accession number 44-9-10/38837.

Provenance: ex Skinner Auctions, Marlboro, Mass

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#157982

Repaired from 9 pieces with fissures and some missing chips visible. Three pairs of drill holes; two at rim and one near base. Minute chips/nicks to rim. Three small collection labels on base. Some fading to exterior paint, but excellent remaining pigments.

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