Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona or New Mexico, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) / Mogollon culture, ca. 1175 to 1325 CE. A fabulous pottery bowl of hemispherical form with a rounded base and thin walls that swell upwards and then slightly inwards to a circular rim. The redware vessel is extensively decorated with the interior walls featuring black-painted linear motifs with triangular shapes, zigzag designs, and parallel striations, all surrounding a plain rectangle at the center. A thick black band additionally encompasses the interior rim. Alternatively, the exterior displays white and black stepped designs extending from a horizontal band and each containing a triangle. Size: 10" Diameter x 5.7" H (25.4 cm x 14.5 cm)

The pottery is formed with iron-rich clays using the coil and scrape technique. This type is primarily known from the Pinedale Ruin, a settlement of approximately 200 rooms located near modern-day Show Low, Arizona. 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.

According to the Office of Archaeological Studies Pottery Typology Project, "Pinedale Black-on-red and Pinedale Polychrome were defined by Haury and Hargrave (1931). These types reflect technological and stylistic changes reflected by many of the White Mountain Red Ware forms produced during late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The Pinedale Black-on-red and Polychrome types most commonly occur at sites in areas just below the Mogollon Rim in Arizona."

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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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#185347

Professionally repaired with break lines and infill visible in areas, as well as some minor areas of restoration and repainting. Nice overall decorative composition and form.