$510.00
In stock
Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona / New Mexico, Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo) & Hohokam, ca. 950 to 1450 CE. A pair of pottery effigies, a small Anasazi mouse like creature that is also a miniature vessel, and a Hohokam bird amulet or lug fragment. Both are painted with black linear and checkered patterning, the lines radiating out from the central opening of the hollow mouse. The bird may have attached to the rim or side of a vessel like a lug. Size of mouse: 3″ L x 1.5″ W x 1.4″ H (7.6 cm x 3.8 cm x 3.6 cm); bird: 1.75″ L x 1.25″ W (4.4 cm x 3.2 cm)
Please note this item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.
Condition: Mouse is repaired and restored from several pieces, with infill, new material on tail, and overpainting on the exterior. Bird has abrasions and craquelure to pigment, but otherwise intact.
Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all purchases.
We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
