Native American, Southwestern USA, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Kana'a, Pueblo I, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A hand-built pottery seed jar exhibiting a broad, apple-shaped body and a gently sloped base. The upper half of the rounded, white-ground body is decorated with solid black triangles around the rim - perhaps a solar motif - which radiate parallel zigzag stripes between additional black triangles around the midsection; the lower body is undecorated. Three pairs of drilled repair holes illustrates how twine would have been knotted through each to form an ancient repair. Size: 7.96" Diameter x 5.4" H (20.2 cm x 13.7 cm)

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Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#185399

Professional repair and restoration to areas around the ancient drill hole repairs, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Old area of repair stabilized with adhesive material in ancient times. Abrasions and light fading to pigment, with pitting in scattered areas, otherwise in nice condition. Great zigzag motif around upper body. Previous inventory label beneath base.