1300 - 1400 AD
Height 9 3/4" Diameter 14"
Provenance: Private Arizona collection
Gila Polychrome was produced between .1300 and the 1400 AD. Typically these wares had a similar color scheme to the Pinto polychromes, but had complex, asymmetrical designs. The designs were made with scalloped edges and a negative diamond “eye” on triangles, scrolls, keys, mazes, and hatches (Houk 1992). The Gila wares were typically fashioned into bowls, jars, and sometimes effigy vessels. Gila bowls tend to have a lifeline, or a broad band of paint around the rim (Houk 1992; Simon 1996). Gila Polychrome had the widest-range of all pottery types in the southwest. Many of these vessels were made locally, and not necessarily made and then traded by the Salado people. This example exhibits a rare decorated rim.
Not found on Federal or State Land.
1300 - 1400 AD
Height 9 3/4" Diameter 14"
Provenance: Private Arizona collection
Gila Polychrome was produced between .1300 and the 1400 AD. Typically these wares had a similar color scheme to the Pinto polychromes, but had complex, asymmetrical designs. The designs were made with scalloped edges and a negative diamond “eye” on triangles, scrolls, keys, mazes, and hatches (Houk 1992). The Gila wares were typically fashioned into bowls, jars, and sometimes effigy vessels. Gila bowls tend to have a lifeline, or a broad band of paint around the rim (Houk 1992; Simon 1996). Gila Polychrome had the widest-range of all pottery types in the southwest. Many of these vessels were made locally, and not necessarily made and then traded by the Salado people. This example exhibits a rare decorated rim.
Not found on Federal or State Land.
