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Native American, Southwest, Southern Colorado Plateau, Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo, Mancos, ca. 980 to 1150 CE. A beautiful Mancos black-on-white pottery pitcher, nicely decorated with two angular sinuous bands - one running around the lower walls of the globular body and the other adorning the lower end of the tubular neck - and between these, a register of repeated, contiguous netted triangular motifs. Size: 3.95" in diameter x 4.1" H (10 cm x 10.4 cm)
According to the Office of Archaeological Studies Pottery Typology Project, "Mancos Black-on-white was named by Gladwin (1934) and first described by Martin(1936). This type encompasses a very wide range of design styles and technological variability as compared to many other later Pueblo II types (Abel 1955; Breternitz et al 1974; Hayes 1964; Hayes and Lancaster 1974; Oppelt 1992; Reed 1958; Rohn 1977; Wilson and Blinman 1995). For example, Mancos Black-on-white subsumes design styles used to define the Cibola tradition types Gallup Black-on-white, Chaco Black-on-white, Escavada Black-on white and Puerco Black-on-white; the Chuska tradition types Chuska Black-on-white, Toadalena Black-on-white, Burnham Black on white; the Kayenta tradition types Black Mesa Black-on-white, Sosi Black-on-white, Dogoszhi Black-on-white, and the Rio Grande type Kwahe'e Black on white. Differences in the number of Pueblo II types distinguished in the different Anasazi regions is a reflection more of archaeological classification conventions than of stylistic variability in the Northern San Juan region. Mancos Black on-white was first produced during the last decades of the tenth century and is the dominant white ware type in assemblages dating from A.D. 1000 through about A.D. 1150 (Wilson and Blinman 1995). After A.D. 1150, McElmo Black-on-white replaces Mancos Black on white."
Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection; ex V. Olsen Collection from LA Junta, Colorado, USA; purchased in 2007
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Condition
Professionally repaired with approximately 8% restoration. Nice deposits on surface.