Pottery
(Found on private land before June 17, 1989. This property sold without violation of any state or federal law. )
Pinto Polychrome Bowl with Mythic Male Figure
Salado; Roosevelt Redware; small bowl; 1280-1300 A.D.
Rounded incurved bowl with a red painted exterior and an interior black on white painted composition that features a mythic male anthropomorphic figure framed by four stepped elements.
Rillito Red-on-Brown Scoop
Hohokam; Colonial Period, Rillito Phase; small scoop; 850-950 A.D.
Brown clay with red slip, fire clouds, thick lines and thick diameter. Scoop with an interior offset quartered, “Y” band composition that features central spiral and a negative snake motif. Tuscon variant of Santa Cruz Red-on-buff.
Corrugated Incised Mimbres Seed Jar
Mogollon; small seed jar; 1050-1250 A.D.
Utility Slipped Tradition. Brown clay, fine corrugations, incised rim, fugitive red slip, fire clouds, smudged interior
Ramos Polychrome Male Kneeling Effigy
Casas Grandes; large effigy
Kayenta Lino Gray Bird Effigy
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); small effigy; 600-750 A.D.
Black gray clay, coarse quartz sand temper on surface, unpolished, no slip, fire clouds, simple tapered rim, no lip eversion; earliest type
Classic Mimbres Black-on-White Picture Bowl, Two Human Figures
Mogollon; Classic Mimbres Phase; medium size bowl; 1050 A.D.
Mineral Paint Tradition. Brown clay, white slip, black mineral paint. Hemispheric bowl with an interior painted composition featuring two human figures (male), a stylized fish and a quiver. Story teller bowl - the two fishermen.potterysouthwestern potteryMogollonClassic Mimbres Phasebowl
Sosi Black-on-White Canteen
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; small canteen; 1075-1200 A.D.
Kayenta series. Gray clay, polished white slip, black vegetal paint. Elliptical shaped canteen with short coil suspension lugs and a restricted neck that flares slightly to the rim. The upper surface is painted with a linear offset quartered composition of spiraling angles that terminate in a stepped angle.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTusayan Whitewarecanteen
Kayenta Black-on-White Seed Jar
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; small seed jar; 1250-1300 A.D.
Gray clay, white slip, vegetal black paint, negative design with solid areas of black paint with white scrolls. Seed jar with a hemispheric body and an eccentric flattened neck that closes to a direct circular rim. Zonal band decorations are painted in the Kayenta negative style on the horizontal flat neck and below the shoulder angle. Decoration on the lower section of the seed jar includes fine “mosquito bar” hatching.potterysouthwestern potteryanasazi prehistoric puebloseed jar
Pinedale Polychrome Bowl with Exterior Red Cross Motif
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; large bowl; 1275-1325 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Bowl with a thick shoulder and outcurved rim that features six isolated negative red cross motifs on a black diamond field outlined in fine white line painting. The interior has a complex lattice band decoration that includes opposing angle-fringed lines of black on red encircling a negative red reserved center.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Gallup Black-on-White Canteen
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size canteen; 950-1100 A.D.
MIneral paint tradition. Puerco gray clay, polished white slip, vegetal black paint, hatching with coarse line work forming geometric scroll figures. Canteen with a restricted short cylindrical neck and opposing coil suspension lugs. Bands of Dogoszhi-style interlocking fringed elements encircle the canteen above and below the shoulder, which is delineated by a thick back encircling band.potterysouthwestern potteryanasazi prehistoric pueblocanteen
Mesa Verde Black-on-White Cup
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Mesa Verde Whiteware; small mug; 1200-1300 A.D.
MIneral Paint Tradition. Gray clay white slip black mineral paint; alternating thick lines and solid elementspotterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloMesa Verde Whitewaremug
Roosevelt Black-on-White Bowl with Handle
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); small bowl; 1250-1300 A.D.
Southern Cibola. Mineral paint tradition. White clay, black mineral paint, white slip with subglaze, open shield center, thick and thin circular lines, fine diagonal hatching, rim ticking, checkers and dots.
Tularosa Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; Cibola Whiteware; medium bowl; 1150-1250 A.D.
Mineral Paint Tradition. White clay white slip black mineral paint; shallow bowl; bold geometric alternating black and white elements, fine hatchingpotterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonCibola Whitewarebowl
Mimbres Black-on-White Bird Effigy
Mogollon; Classic Mimbres Phase; small effigy; 1000-1150 A.D.
Brown clay white slip black mineral paint, bird effigy. Rare and uniquepotterysouthwestern potteryMogollonClassic Mimbres Phaseeffigy
Prescot Culture Verde Brown Olla (Sinagua)
Patayan; large olla; 1000-1300 A.D.
Red-brown clay, paddle and anvil visible externally, surface smooth but not polished, fire clouds, rounded rim; 2nd largest bowl ever
Tonto Polychrome Tall-Neck Jar
Salado; Roosevelt Redware; medium size jar; 1350-1450 A.D.
Brown clay, red slip surrounds areas of black and white painted design; smudged shiny black interior. Jar with low thick shoulder and tall neck that tapers to a flared rim. The Tonto style painting incorporates red into the overall design, and is in the Roosevelt “stage two” style with dot-ticked fringed opposing elements and serrated framing devices. The neck decoration features four rectangular black serrated panels with red “sun” motifs with black serrated edges on a circular white ground. The base decoration features feathered serpent symbols.
Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl with Bear Paw Motif
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Jeddito Yellowware; medium size bowl; 1325-1600 A.D.
Hopi Tradition. Yellow clay, black-brown mineral paint, bear clan sign and broken arrow. Rounded bowl with an outcurved rim. The burnished yellow surface has dark brown painted decorations consisting of an angular “sky band” painted below the exterior rim on one third of the vessel shoulder. An interior decoration features a three-sided broken arrow with a shield motif appended to the center. Stylized feathers fringe the base of the shield and a thick broken “onane” band frames the central composition.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloJeddito Yellowwarebowl
Tularosa Black-on-White Doughnut Pot
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; small doughnut pot; 1100-1250 A.D.
White clay, black mineral paint, white slip with sub-glaze; vertical hatching, rim ticking. Annular pitcher with a broad strap handle and cylindrical neck that flares slightly at the rim. The body of the vessel is covered with fine-line zig-zag bands.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewaredoughnut pot
Human Effigy Belly Bowl
Hohokam; Classic Period, Civano Phase; medium size effigy; 1150-1400 A.D.
Cream-tan paste, thin red painted lines, human effigy with sea shell earrings.potterysouthwestern potteryHohokamClassic PeriodCivano Phaseeffigy
Kayenta Polychrome Orange Slipped and Burnished Bowl with Handle
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tsegi Orangeware; medium size bowl; 1250-1300 A.D.
Orange clay, red slip, black vegetal paint, kaolin white paint. Handle-rare. Orange slipped and burnished rounded bowl with a direct rim and a short strap handle affixed below the rim. The exterior is decorated with a bold red stripe below the rim, while the interior has an offset quartered composition and rectangular reserved center formed by bold red banding. Smaller decorative elements are painted in black and all major components of the composition are outlined in black with an outer framing line of white.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTsegi Orangewarebowl
Kechipawan Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Zuniware; medium size bowl; 1375-1425 A.D.
Gray-pink clay, white slip interior and exterior,
black glaze paint, red hematite paint. Rounded bowl with an outcurved rim that is decorated with four black tic marks painted at quarter points. The vessel has matte red and glaze black painted decorations on a white slipped ground. The exterior has three red and black hourglass motifs elaborated with stepped-fringed angles. The interior features a pair of offset and opposing solid red arms and hands painted in the center of the bowl framed by thick solid black and black cross-hatch filled bands.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloZuniwarebowl
Kiatuthlana Black-on-White Scoop
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; small scoop; 800-875 A.D.
Mineral Paint Tradition. Gray clay, quartz temper, white slip, black mineral paint; fine lines, solid triangles, small dots, stepped elements.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewarescoop
Chapin Black-on-White Hemispheric Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Mesa Verde Whiteware; medium size bowl; 587-850 A.D.
Vegetal Paint Tradition. Gray clay, crushed rock temper, no slip, black vegetal paint, simple basket-like designs. Hemispheric bowl with opposing and isolated stepped elements painted below the rim interior and elaborated with fringed elements.
Chaco-McElmo Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; medium size bowl; 1085-1200 A.D.
Gray clay, white slip, Chaco design in vegetal black paint; McElmo phase of Chaco with Mesa Verde influence. Hemispheric vessel with an interior bisected composition featuring contiguous angular “S” bands filled with fine wavy line hatch fill. The rim is painted solid black except for one area where the negative white of the interior design invades the rim.
Showlow Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; small bowl; 1325-1400 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Cibola. Red slipped and burnished bowl with a thick rounded shoulder and outcurved rim. The interior has a black and white on red band decoration of opposing black and negative red triangular-fringed bands.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonwhite mountain redwarebowl
Kana-a Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; medium size bowl; 700-850 A.D.
Kayenta Series. White paste, vegetal paint, thin black lines, ticking, blocky triangles. Rounded bowl with a direct rim and interior and exterior linear and geometric painted decorations. The interior features an eight-point star composition around a negative reserved center.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTusayan Whitewarebowl
Mesa Verde Black-on-White Cup
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Mesa Verde Whiteware; small mug; 1200-1300 A.D.
Gray clay, crushed rock temper, black mineral paint, closely spaced fine lines, complex designs. Mug with a thick coil handle, flat base and a body that tapers to a direct rim. The base and rim are ringed by fine-line banding that frames a decoration of checker-filled angles separated by a bold zig-zag band.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloMesa Verde Whitewaremug
Pinedale Black-on-White Avian Effigy Canteen
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size effigy; 1250-1350 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Avian (duck) effigy canteen with suspension lugs at the back of the head and above the tail. The zonal decorative panels of the body feaure opposing serrated angles on the back and panels of thin straight and thick stepped parallel lines.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewareeffigy
Matsaki Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Zuniware; medium size bowl; 1475-1600 A.D.
Zuni-Hopi Tradition. Non-glaze ware; crazed surface, crumbly paste, buff, cream, yellow background, feather geometric design in black, red-brown; similar to Sikyatkipotterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloZuniwarebowl
Red Mesa Black-on-White Olla
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; large olla; 875-1000 A.D.
Gray clay sand temper mineral paint. Large olla with concave base that flares to a thickly rounded shoulder, and a subconoidal neck that restricts to a slightly flared rim. The neck and shoulder are decorated with thick bands containing a series of rectangular panels composed of eccentrically shaped concentric fineline framing bands, and opposing solid black angular elements with dot-ticked edges.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewareolla
Ramos Polychrome Female Effigy Jar
Casas Grandes; Medio Period; medium size effigy; 1280-1450 A.D.
Villa Ahumada variant. White slip on red-brown paste. Hooded effigy jar in the form of a seated female. The face of the effigy is slipped white and has black linear and geometric painted decorations. The rest of the vessel is burnished buff including modeled legs, arms, breast and vulva, and decorated with avian images as well as geometric and linear patterning of red and black.
McElmo Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Mesa Verde Whiteware; large bowl; 1200-1300 A.D.
Black carbon paint, gray clay, pearl white slip. Bowl with distinctive chalky crazed glassy white interior slip. Vegetal design elements form repetitive geometric panels or bands along the wall of the bowl. The designs have balanced framing lines above and below the design panels and the rim is decorated with alternating thick linear bands black dots or ticks. Symmetric and well organizedpotterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloMesa Verde Whitewarebowl
Mimbres Black-on-White Negative Bowl
Mogollon; Classic Mimbres Phase; medium size bowl; 1000-1150 A.D.
Brown clay, white slip, black mineral paint, kill hole. Finely drawn geometric patterns with thick and thin lines.potterysouthwestern potteryMogollonClassic Mimbres Phasebowl10001150 A.D.
Jeddito Black-on-Orange Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tsegi Orangeware; small bowl; 1275-1400 A.D.
Hopi Tradition. Rounded bowl with an outcurved rim. A thick broken “onane” band is painted below the rim and frames a quartered composition of four rectangular panels filled with solid black opposing stepped elements. These decorations are on a negative orange field and inscribed by an angular framing band filled with fine straight and wavy black lines. The exterior has two hourglass avian motifs painted on opposite sides of the vessel below the rim.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTsegi Orangewarebowl
Four Mile Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; large bowl; 1325-1400 A.D.
Black mineral paint, white paint, red slip and gray to pink clay; largest known four mile bowlpotterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Sikyatki Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Jeddito Yellowware; medium size bowl; 1400-1625 A.D.
Hopi Tradition. Black and red paint on polished yellow clay; paint stipples on interior.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloJeddito Yellowwarebowl
Puerco Scoop
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; small scoop; 1000-1200 A.D.
Pink-gray clay, mineral black paint, red slip. Interior design elements are a simple panel of medium width lines and solid frets with an open center.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonwhite mountain redwarescoop
Tonto Polychrome Olla
Salado; Roosevelt Redware; large olla; 1350-1450 A.D.
Red clay, black and white paint on red slip. Large jar with a shallow rounded base, thick rounded shoulder, and a suppressed neck that tapers to a slightly outcurved rim. This Escondida style painting features a black on white neck band of stepped diamonds, and a shoulder and neck decoration of a double bird-wing, ribbon-like meander that incorporates the red background painting into the composition as opposing bird-wing motifs.
St. John’s Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; large bowl; 1175-1300 A.D.
Black mineral paint, white paint, red slip and gray to pink clay. Bowl with a thick shoulder and slightly outcurved rim. The exterior has a bold white on red encircling pattern of stepped motifs that terminate in stepped angles. The interior has a quartered composition with a reserved circular center of black on red that features stepped diamond motifs of solid black, hatch-fill and negative red.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Red Mesa Black-on-White Pitcher
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size pitcher; 870-950 A.D.
Gray clay sand temper mineral paint; thin parallel lines, ticking, solid triangles, blocky designs. Pitcher with a globular body, restricted cylindrical neck, direct rim, and strap handle. Zonal decorations feature three thick encircling bands around the body that are filled with a series of angle-fringed interlocking spirals. All the framing bands are decorated with pendant dots.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewarepitcher
Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; medium size bowl; 1300-1375 A.D.
Black mineral paint, white paint, red slip and gray to pink clay. Interior design goes to the rim. Design is central, symmetric and framing lines are similar in width to the hatching lines. Exterior decorations are fine black and white designs.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Snowflake Cup
Anasazi-Mogollon; small cup; 950-1200 A.D.
Cibola mineral black paint; bright white slip, interlocking scrolls, stepped elements
Cohonina Sunset Red Bowl
Patayan; medium size bowl; 1050-1200 A.D.
Strikingly beautiful bowl in red, pink, orange, with black and gray fire clouds. Made from clays near the Sunset Volcano; demonstrates importance of slip. Clay is mixed with volcanic sand temper, which after firing forms an unattractive gray to black porous ceramic. Thick red-pink slip is coated on the surface until the porous holes are filled while the rim of the bowl is left unslipped or black. The pink-red color contrasts the black rim and a strikingly beautiful ceramic is produced with some polishing.
Kana-a Gray Style Fugitive Red Wash Corrugated Pitcher
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); small pitcher; 750-850 A.D.
Dark gray core, quartz sand temper, rough suface, unobliterated neck coils, thin red washpotterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric Pueblopitcher
Socorro Black-on-White Olla
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); large olla; 950-1400 A.D.
Middle Rio Grande; Mineral Paint. Gray paste, sand temper, black mineral paint on white slip; wide and fine lines, solid and hatched, opposed geometric elements, some undecorated area, graceful shape, well executed.
Gila Red Bowl
Salado; small bowl; 1200-1400 A.D.
Red core, sand temper, mica not conspicuous, red slip on interior and exterior, surface highly polished, vertical and horizontal polish streaks. Though simple in design this perfectly rounded bowl was made with great technical skill and artistry
Sacaton Red-on-Buff Shallow Bowl
Hohokam; Sedentary Period, Sacaton Phase; large bowl; 950-1150 A.D.
Buff paste, red paint, quartz and mica temper,
large and thick. Shallow bowl or platter with an interior quartered composition established by a negative cross formed by pendant weges that are decorated with straight and wavy parallel lines and interlocking spirals.potterysouthwestern potteryHohokamSedentary PeriodSacaton Phasebowl
Salt Red Bowl
Hohokam; Classic Period, Civano Phase; medium size bowl; 1300-1500 A.D.
Red slipped highly polished, fire clouds, smudged interiorancient potterysouthwestern potteryHohokamClassic PeriodCivano Phasebowl