Pottery
(Found on private land before June 17, 1989. This property sold without violation of any state or federal law. )
Red-on-Buff Rattlesnake Flared Bowl
Hohokam; Sedentary Period, Sacaton Phase; medium size bowl; 500-875 A.D.
Colonial Period red on light buff. Flared “helmit” bowl decorated on the interior with an offset quartered composition featuring five stylized rattlesnakes in negative “bull’s eye” motifs.potterysouthwestern potteryHohokamSedentary PeriodSacaton Phasebowl
Tusayan Black-on-White Olla
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; very large olla; 1150-1300 A.D.
Vegetal Paint. Gritty dense black on gray, sawtooth lines, interlocking scrolls.
Very large jar with a high thick shoulder that indents slightly at the subconoidal neck, which tapers to an outcurved rim. The zonal banding is in the Kayenta negative painting style and features a complex quartered panel composition around the neck, and an opposing “Y” frame banding below the neck.potterysouthwestern potteryanasazi prehistoric pueblotusayan whitewareolla
Tularosa Black-on-White Olla
Mogollon; large olla; 1000-1200 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition; Cibola province; or Mogollon copying Anasazi; black on white olla
Tularosa Bird Effigy
Anasazi-Mogollon; small effigy; 1000-1200 A.D.
Anasazi mineral paint tradition, Cibola Province; or Mogollon copying Anasazi black on white. Extremely strong and intact bird effigy vessel.
St. John’s Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; large bowl; 1175-1300 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Black on deep red slip; unusual white interior markingsancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Four Mile Polychrome Red Slipped and Burnished Olla
Anasazi (Pueblo)-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; medium size olla; 1300-1400 A.D.
Bold and rare red slipped and burnished jar with a thick shoulder, short cylindrical neck and direct rim. The neck is painted white and decorated with four rectilinear motifs that terminate in stepped angles. The shoulder features a broad panel band with solid black elements, hatch-filed spirals, and decorations in white and white outlining.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi PuebloMogollonWhite Mountain Redwareollarare
Reserve Black-on-White Ladle
Anasazi (prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; small ladle; 950-1100 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Ladle with a rounded bowl featuring four pendant hook-barbed angles filled with checker patterning, and a notched “boat”-style handle painted with a series of bold black spiraling angles.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewareladle
Carretas Black-on-Orange Turtle Effigy Seed Jar
Casas Grandes; Medio Period; medium size effigy; 1280-1450 A.D.
Black-on-Orange Variant. Polychrome glaze. Orange smoothed unpolished clay, no slip. The black-on-orange variant contains no red. Turtle effigy seed jar with thick glaze black bands on orange with black hatch-filled check. These bands are painted above and below the shoulder of the vessel where the turtle head, legs and tail are modeled and painted with thick glaze black paint.
Pinedale Black-on-White Bowl with Human Figure
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size bowl; 1250-1300 A.D.
Gray clay white slip black mineral paint, central shield, interlocking scrolls, rim ticking, human figure unusual and rare. Rounded bowl featuring a stylized, rectilinear splayed male figure in the circular reserved center of the vessel. A decorative framing band is composed of opposing solid and hatched filled angles and the direct rim is elaborated with tic marks.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewarebowl
McDonald Rugas Corrugated Slipped and Painted Utility Bowl
Mogollon; large bowl; 1100-1300 A.D.
Brown clay, white paint on red slip, blackened
interior, finely made corrugated utility bowl, strong paint
Boldface Mimbres Ram Effigy
Mogollon; Classic Mimbres Phase; small effigy; 1000-1150 A.D.
Slipped tradition, black on white. Bighorn ram effigy canteen with a bilateral geometric and linear painted composition covering the upper body of the effigy.potterysouthwestern potteryMogollonClassic Mimbres Phaseeffigy
Madera Fish Effigy Bowl
Casas Grandes; medium size effigy; 1050-1400 A.D.
Bichrome tradition. Back on red, fish effigy bowl. Thick black lines and blocky triangles on a reddish brown surface.
Reserve Black-on-White Flute Player Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; Cibola Whiteware; medium size bowl; 1000-1125 A.D.
Mineral paint, white slip; diagonal hatching, stepped elements, opposed hatched and solid elements, band or Pinedale style. Hemispheric bowl that features a stylized human flute player in the circular reserved center, which is framed by an elaborate solid black, white and hatched quartered composition. The exterior has a bold black-on-gray double zig-zag band framed in white. Unique and rare.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonCibola Whitewarebowl
Four Mile Polychrome Pinedale Ladle
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Polychrome; medium size ladle; 1300-1400 A.D.
Black outlined in white on orange. Extremely rare.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Polychromeladle
Snowflake Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); small bowl; 1150-1200 A.D.
Gray clay, white unpolished slip, mineral paint designs; stripes, straight wide lines, opposed pair designs, diagonal cross hatching. Question use of mineral and vegetal paint. Perfect small black-on-white slipped bowl.
Cohonina Sunset Red Seed Jar
Patayan; medium size seed jar; 1050-1200 A.D.
Strikingly beautiful seed jar 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.
Ramos Black Duck Effigy Jar
Casas Grandes; medium size effigy; 1200-1450 A.D.
Black plain-ware without paint or other decoration. Dull surface yet an elegant shape.
Madera Square Bowl
Casas Grandes; small bowl; 1100-1400 A.D.
Polished black on red; square bowl, seed jar or possible effigy since double strap holes are present
Ramos Black Double Olla
Casas Grandes; medium olla; 1100-1400 A.D.
Polished blackware; ramos black double olla; unusual shape
Kiatuthlana Black-on-White Canteen
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size canteen; 800-870 A.D.
Gray paste, sand temper, mineral paint; thin walls; fine parallel zigzag lines, solid trianglespotterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewarecanteen
Gila Plain Seed Jar
medium seed jar; 700-1100 A.D.
Highly polished seed jar; soft russet brown unslipped brownware; smudged interior; striking colors
San Carlos Red-on-Orange Human Effigy Jar
Salado; Roosevelt Redware; small effigy; 1200-1400 A.D.
Human effigy jar of bottle with the head as the neck of the vessel and lowrelief limbs modeled on the body of the vessel. Red fringed bands decorate the face, and bands of angular lines and fringed elements encircle the “torso” and base of the vessel.
Playas Red Olla
Casas Grandes; large olla; 1100-1400 A.D.
Ramos Black Variant. Red-brown clay. Striking red and black vessel with an unusual shape. The polished red slip contrasts the black smudged area.
Huerigos Peyote Polychrome Bowl
Casas Grandes; medium size bowl; 1100-1400 A.D.
Orange clay with black glaze and red design elements and thick lines on exterior; white slipped interior with black design elements;
ticked counterclockwise; spiral peyote design
Corralitos Polychrome Olla
Casas Grandes; medium size olla; 1100-1400 A.D.
Alternating red and black paint on red clay with incised lines. The incised lines are thin and appear white however there is no white pigment present.
Carretas Polychrome Bowl
Casas Grandes; medium size bowl; 1100-1400 A.D.
Striking colorful bowl;. Orange, red-yellow polished clay with red and black thick lines and blocky designs, black glaze paint.
Birds in Flight Jar
Hohokam; Colonial Period, Santa Cruz Phase; medium jar; 850-950 A.D.
Red on buff with birds in flight motifpotterysouthwestern potteryHohokamColonial PeriodSanta Cruz Phasejar
Kinishba Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; medium size bowl; 1300-1350 A.D.
Light orange-yellow slip, black and red design, central design element.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Pinedale Polychrome Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware;
medium bowl; 1100-1400 A.D.
Black, white, red on Redware bowl. Striking large example of Pinedale polychrome. Bowl’s interior decoration leaves the center undecorated and the design elements go to the rim. The interior design is interlocked solid and hatched elements in black with white outlines. The exterior designs are units in black and red with white trim.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Huerrigos Polychrome Quail Effigy Seed Jar
Casas Grandes; Medio Period; small effigy; 1280-1450 A.D.
Villa Ahumada Polychrome. Red clay, white slip, red and black thick lines, some red areas outlined by thick black lines. Quail effigy seed jar of red and glaze black on thick white paint. The vessel is segmented into decorative panels featuring barbed triangular fringed lines. The quail head and tail are sculpted on either side of the vessel.
Ramos Polychrome Olla with Stylized Human Faces
Casas Grandes; Medio Period; medium size olla; 1280-1450 A.D.
Tan polished clay, thin black and red lines, red elements outlined by thin black lines. Basal point jar with low thick shoulder, subconoidal neck and slightly flared rim. The body of the vessel is covered with a panel band established by pendant angles and diamonds, and features stylized human faces in black and red on buff.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryCasas GrandesMedio Periodolla
Wingate Black-on-Red Bowl
Anasazi-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; large bowl; 950-1100 A.D.
Black mineral paint on red slip; checker board design in a band with open center; ram figure on exterior.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasaziMogollonWhite Mountain Redwarebowl
Tularosa Black-on-White Olla
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; large olla; 1150-1250 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition. Cibola province. Globular jar with restricted cylindrical neck and slightly flared rim. The neck has a series of bold black opposing stepped angles, while the body has a series of three intermeshed bands of opposing and interlocking spirals and stepped angles of solid black, hatch-filled and negative white.
Gila Butte Red-on-Buff Painted and Incised Bowl
Hohokam; Colonial Period, Gila Butte Phase; medium size bowl; 750-850 A.D.
Red-on-buff; mica-quartz temper; exterior scored haphazardly. Painted and incised rounded bowel with a direct rim. The exterior is decorated with bands of fringed spirals.potterysouthwestern potteryHohokamColonial PeriodGila Butte Phasebowl
Sholow Polychrome Olla
Anasazi (Pueblo)-Mogollon; White Mountain Redware; medium size olla; 1325-1400 A.D.
Cibola mineral paint tradition. Red slipped and burnished jar with a thick shoulder, cylindrical neck and direct rim. The neck and neck flange are painted white and decorated with black opposing stepped angles that are appended to a black encircling rim band. The shoulder has a thick quartered panel band of opposing black and white stepped elements; the black decorations are outlined with white.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi PuebloMogollonWhite Mountain Redwareolla
Black Mesa Black-on-White Olla
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; large olla; 875-1130 A.D.
Vegetal Paint, Kayenta Series. Gray paste, quartz sand temper, thin white slip, broad lines, dots, large solid elements, simple elements. Jar with a high thick shoulder, restricted subconoidal neck and direct rim. The upper half of the jar has zonal band decoration on the shoulder and neck that feature solid black pendant elements and opposing angles, some of which are elaborated with dot or fringe ticking.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTusayan Whitewareolla
Jeddito Black-on-Yellow
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Jeddito Yellowware; medium size olla; 1325-1600 A.D.
Hopi polychrome tradition. Jar with a thick rounded shoulder and restricted neck that tapers to a flared rim that is decorated with ticking at quarter points. The burnished yellow surface has dark brown painted decorations consisting of a thick broken “onane” band at the base of the neck. Opposing linear and geometric elements are appended to a fineline encircling band painted above the shoulder.ancient potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloJeddito Yellowwareolla
Prescot Tuzigoot Red Bowl (Sinagua)
Patayan; medium size bowl; 1150-1400 A.D.
Brown clay, paddle and anvil, polished red slip,mblack, gray, yellow fire clouds, interior smudged, rim flared.
Tusayan Black-on-White Pitcher
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Tusayan Whiteware; medium size pitcher; 1150-1300 A.D.
Pitcher with rounded body, short subconoidal neck, outcurved rim and strap handle. The vessel has zonal banding that features a Kayenta negative style band of interlocking fret-barbed angles around the neck, and a Dogoszhi style hatched claw meander painted around the shoulder.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloTusayan Whitewarepitcher
Kana-a Black-on-White Seed Jar
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); large seed jar; 700-850 A.D.
Kayenta series. Vegetal paint. Five thin lines encircle with small triangles and ticking, blocky designs, gray paste, white slip.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric Puebloseed jar
Three-Circle Red-on-White Bowl
Mogollon; Three Circle Phase; small bowl; 750 A.D.
Mineral paint tradition, brown clay, white slip with red mineral paint; first use by Mogollon of white slip.
Pioneer Period Vahki Jar
Hohokam; small jar; 250-500 A.D.
Rare Vahki jar, magenta slipped clay with profuse mica, fire clouds, slightly flared lip on jar, thin walled, early sophistication.
Red-on-Brown Bowl
Mogollon; small bowl; 700-1000 A.D.
Red-on-brownware. Red paint, brown slip, brown clay. Rare small bowl of brown clay painted with relatively thick circular designs connected with thick straight lines in a freely flowing style. The unpainted surface has a beautiful black and red fire cloud.
White-on-Red Salt River Ware Bowl
Salado; medium bowl; 1150-1250 A.D.
Brown to gray clay, flecks of copper colored mica, powdery purple slip, fugitive white paint in thin zig-zag lines with dots or ticks
Red-on-Brown Bowl
Mogollon; small bowl; 700-1000 A.D.
Brown clay, red paint, no slip; bowl divided into 4 sections by thin red lines
White Mound Black-on-White Bowl
Anasazi (Prehistoric Pueblo); Cibola Whiteware; medium size bowl; 700-800 A.D.
Mineral paint, gray unpolished gritty clay, unslipped, coarse sand temper visible, geometric basket designs with solid rim elements. Rare human figures.potterysouthwestern potteryAnasazi Prehistoric PuebloCibola Whitewarebowl