Description:

Native American, North America, Southwest Colorado, Mesa Verde, Anasazi culture, Tularosa style, ca. 1175-1300 CE. The Ancient Puebloans of Mesa Verde in Southwest Colorado created handbuilt beautiful forms using a coil-and-scrape technique and adorned these with their distinct black-on-white painted designs to create pottery that remains a marvel today. Tularosa pottery from the Starkweather Ruin has been divided into three styles - Wingate, Snowflake and Tularosa - reflecting similarities in decoration with their source types. Classic Tularosa Style designs are based on spirals, a diagnostic feature of the type. However, the spiral-stairstep motif that we see in this example is considered to be the most advanced development. 12-1/4" x 15"

Provenance: Ex-private collection of major Hollywood actor who acquired it in the early 1980s

All items in this auction are legal to buy/sell under U.S. statute covering cultural patrimony per United States Code 2600, CHAPTER 14 -- CONVENTION ON CULTURAL PROPERTY, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.

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  • Condition: Reconstruction from approximately 50 pieces - visible in photos; Approximately 15% plaster fill.

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