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Native American, Southwest, Southern Colorado Plateau, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Mancos, ca. 980 to 1150 CE. A hand-built pottery ladle of white-ground form bearing black linear motifs on the handle as well as rings of black serrations within the scoop. Size: 9.75″ L x 5.375″ W x 2.75″ H (24.8 cm x 13.7 cm x 7 cm)
According to the New Mexico 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.”
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Condition: Professional restoration to areas of handle and scoop, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and light fading to original pigment, with minor earthen deposits, otherwise in nice condition. Great form.
Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000
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