230609-03 Large Prehistoric Native American Ancestral Pueblo Zuni Heshotatula polychrome
c. 1275 - 1385AD
Size: 5" H x 11"D
With professional restoration.
An impressive bowl.
This is a Zuni type called Heshotatula polychrome, the Zuni Glaze Wares in my opinion were some of the finest prehistoric pottery manufactured. They did do variations of desirable pottery, like Pinedale polychrome in this case but also Sikyatki and Showlow, A relatively rare and fine example.
Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona or New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) / 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 panels with "Big Horns" within, linear swirl. Alternatively, the exterior displays lightning zig zags in white paint contained within a band. The interior basin presents a circle of bare terracotta.
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."