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ITEM # SIZE ft.& in. DESCRIPTION, APPROX. AGE PRICE US$ PHOTO
#6905 2 3/4"x 2 3/4" A small Pueblo blackware pottery vase, San Ildefonso Pueplo or possibly Santa Clara, SW United States, 20th C vintage, near mint condition, larger photo $225.00
#7926 4.5"x3.5" Santa Clara blackware pottery, Santa Clara Pueblo, SW United States, 20thC vintage, signed by the artist Flora Naranjo, near mint condition, larger photos $395.00
#1209 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" Santa Clara blackware pottery, Santa Clara Pueblo, SW United States, mid 20thC, unsigned, very good condition $295.00
#9909 2.5"x1.5" Santa Clara blackware pottery, a miniature bowl with stylized animals, Santa Clara Pueblo, SW United States, 20thC vintage, very good condition, one of a pair, priced as each, larger photo $98.00
#9910 2.5"x1.5" Santa Clara blackware pottery, a miniature bowl with stylized animals, Santa Clara Pueblo, SW United States, 20thC vintage, very good condition, one of a pair, priced as each $98.00
#9986 4" round  San Ildefonso blackware pottery, a small shallow bowl, San Ildefonso Pueplo, SW United States, 20thC vintage, singed "Florence Naranjo", very good conditin, larger photo $175.00
#9182 3 1/2" x 1 1/2" Casas Grandes Pottery, Mata Ortiz Pueblo, Northern Mexico, (the other Southwest US), thin well made pottery with classic round bottom, incised blackware with a gunship gray cast, decorated with feathers, late 20thC, near mint condition, larger photo $65.00
#9183 3 1/2" x 1 1/2" Casas Grandes Pottery, Mata Ortiz Pueblo, Northern Mexico, (the other Southwest US), thin well made pottery with classic round bottom, incised blackware with a gunship gray cast, decorated with poppy leaves, late 20thC, near mint condition, larger photo $65.00
#2186 4 1/2" tall Jemez pottery, a miniature vase from Jamez Pueblo, SW United States, ca.1960's, bright cheery colors from the period, very good condition $29.00
#2187 2 3/4" tall Jemez pottery, a miniature vase from Jamez Pueblo, SW United States, ca.1960's, bright cheery colors from the period, very good condition $24.00
#2188 2 1/4" tall Jemez pottery, Jamez Pueblo, SW United States, ca.1960's, the shape is a stylized kachina fertility doll, but made into salt and pepper shakers, bright cheery colors from the period, very good condition $24.00
#6161 5" x 9 1/2" Sioux Indians pottery vase, paper label and insert with the history of Sioux pottery, painted blue and etched with traditional Sioux designs so that the red under coat shows through, signed on the bottom: Garnett, S.P.R.C.S.D. (Sioux Pottery Rapid City South Dakota), ca. 1970, near mint condition $65.00
#5137 5 1/2" x 4" Navajo hand painted pottery, egg shaped with a scenic vista, when you stare into it, you seem to be gazing across a great distance, accented with designs taken from petroglyphs, signed by the artist "A. Rock", and "Dine" (Navajo), ca. 1960, very good condition, larger photos $55.00
#9161 4"x5" Navajo hand painted pottery, signed by the artist "T.B.; Navajo", Southwest US, ca. 1960's, end of trail design in orange, blue and black, very good condition $39.00
#9162 4" x 3" Navajo hand painted pottery, signed by the artist "Burally; Navajo", Southwest US, ca.1960's, near mint condition $36.00
#9187 8" x 4" Ute Indians hand painted pottery, slight purple cast, aubergine brown, and black, late 20thC, very good condition $39.00
#9060 11.5"x13" A large piece of Tohono O'odham Indians pottery (Papago Indians pottery), Southern Arizona, ca. mid 20thC, a hand coiled water jar with two lugs with pinched appliqué, the red on buff painting is done with red mineral paints, probably crushed hematite, and sprinkled with golden mica, black fire clouds are visible from being fired in a pit and not a kiln, The Tohono O'odham are mostly famous for their basketry, and the image on the pot gives homage to that tradition, the spiky plants are yucca, and the seed pods are devil's claw pods, these are the two most important materials used in their basket making, we also see two finished and decorated baskets on each side, the Tohono O'odham inherited their red on buff tradition from the Hohokham who once occupied the same area and may be there ancestors, one small chip to the rim, general good condition, larger photos $650.00
#7034 3.5"x3.5" Cherokee? pottery vase, collected in North Carolina, 20thC vintage, unsigned, decorated with incised feathers on two sides, the design is incised after firing so that the buff colored undercoat shows through, near mint condition, larger photos $125.00
#9188 6.5" x 2.5" Guaitil Pottery, Chorotega Indians, Guaitil villiage, Guanacaste region, Costa Rica, 20thC vintage, hand coiled and hand painted black and red tri-pod bowl, a little crackling of paint, otherwise good condition $39.00
#9197 4" x 2.5" Guaitil Pottery, Chorotega Indians, Guaitil villiage, Guanacaste region, Costa Rica, 20thC vintage, hand coiled and hand painted, mottled black and red small bowl, near mint condition $29.00
#9115 10" x 4" Zapotec Indians pottery, Oaxaca Mexico, 20thC vintage, hand coiled and pit fired dough bowl, beautiful fire clouds, tempered with golden mica that sparkles in the sun, near mint condition $65.00
#10081 1 1/4" Pottery effigy head, purchased with a group of Pre-Columbian pottery from Northern Mexico, from the side it looks like a turtle, and from the front it looks like a parrot, either image would have been important to indigenous peoples, larger photos $45.00
#10088 9"x4" Casas Grandes pottery bowl, Escondida?, Northern Mexico, 1250-1475 AD, the inside of the bowl is painted with a sunflower, the sunflower was domesticated first in Mexico, it was an important food source and also associated with sun worship, cracked and glued, the bottom has what appears to be a collection date, and signed in pencil "Rio Casas...", larger photos $595.00
#10089 8"x3.5" Casas Grandes pottery bowl, Northern Mexico, 1250 - 1475 AD, the deceivingly simple design is probably a solar orb, a very powerful image in Pre-Columbian Mexico, cracked and glued, larger photos $595.00
#10078 2 3/4" Antique clay pipe, North East Mexico, made in the shape of a peyote plant, most of the peyote plant grows underground, what is shown here is the decapitated root without the button shaped head, the button shaped cap is the part of the plant that is smoked and is a hallucinogen, very good condition, larger photos $250.00
#10080 NA Antique pottery gaming discs, Pre-Columbian Mexico, one appears to be made originally for the purpose, and one is made from recycled pottery, although we call them game pieces, it is just as likely that they were used in divination rituals, very good condition, larger photos $15.00
#10085 5 1/4"x2 3/4" Antique Mexica (Aztec) tripod pottery bowl, Central Mexico, a small personal offering dish with incised bottom, chipped rim, larger photos $250.00
#10083 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" Pre-Columbian Nayarit pottery, Western Mexico, a miniature vessel in the shape of a gourd, gourds of this shape would represent the female principle, very good condition, larger photos $125.00
#10084 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" Pre-Columbian Nayarit pottery, Western Mexico, a miniature vessel in the shape of a gourd, gourds of this shape would represent the female principle, very good condition, larger photos $125.00
#10082 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Pre-Columbian Nayarit pottery, Western Mexico, a miniature vessel in the shape of a gourd, gourds of this shape would represent the female principle, very good condition, larger photos $125.00
#2285A 1 1/2" x 1 3/4" Pre-Columbian Terracotta head, Teotihuacan, Mexico, ca. AD200-600, the image is of a warrior / ballgame player, these were probably used as amulets, perhaps pocket charms like a rabbits foot in Europe, the piece especially on the back seems very "worried" by rubbing, very good condition $45.00
#2285B 3" x 2 1/2" Pre-Columbian Terracotta head, Teotihuacan, Mexico, ca. AD200-600, the image is of a priest wearing a feathered serpent headdress, these were probably used as amulets, perhaps pocket charms like a rabbits foot in Europe, the piece especially on the back seems very "worried" by rubbing, chipped along the bottom $29.00
#2281 3" x 2 1/2" Pre-Columbian terracotta sun calendar, the god Tonatiuh, the Aztec sun god, is depicted wearing a sun calendar as a back shield, and this is probably the back of a terracotta figure of the god, Mexico, ca. AD 1300- 1400, $65.00
#7189 3"x3" Mayan pottery whistle, Guatemala, ca. AD 450-950, some ancient chips but still in working order, you can play it like a flute and produce what sounds like a turkey bird call, these are sometimes called Ocarina, the turkey is a new world bird, that was domesticated in North America, and introduced to Europe by the Spanish, larger photos $250.00
#1202 7 1/2" x 7" Quinua pottery, traditional red and white mineral paints, Central Peru highlands, 20thC, an effigy pot in the shape of a llama, these pop eye ceramics with exaggerated features, have been made in this area since the Chancay period, hundreds of years ago, the piece is solid, with only a couple of dings, some paint loss, some black and red paint transfer $145.00
#4976 7"x5.5" North Georgia pottery, clay with a tobacco spit finish, North Georgia, USA, 20thC vintage, a pot by a very famous family of Georgia potters, the Meaders family, signed "Whelchel Meaders", includeds a pamphlet with Meaders family history produced by "Meaders Family Pottery", near mint condition, larger photos $165.00
#2025 5.5"x5.5" North Georgia pottery, clay with a tobacco spit finish, North Georgia, USA, 20thC vintage, a pot by a very famous family of Georgia potters, the Meaders family, signed "Whelchel Meaders", near mint condition, larger photos $139.00
#7038 3.5"x4" A small stoneware pottery vase with glaze, signed "M Hughes, 11-75", purchased at a craft fair in North Georgia, very pretty for the price, near mint condition, larger photos $24.00
#1142 9"x3 1/2" Jeddito Pottery, (Pre-Columbian Hopi Indians), US Southwest,  AD 1300-1600, two stylized zoomorphic figures, cracked and glued but all there, penned on the bottom is a collection history: "MTD, Arizona, site 14C 31, Room 3, SW corner", larger photos $985.00
#3075 4"x3" Pre-Columbian Pueblo pottery, Southwest US, 550 A.D. - 1300 A.D., a small corrugated bowl or cup, tempered with gruel, a mixture of sand, crushed pottery, and what appears to be basalt grit, the clay is rolled into strips and then coiled one upon another and molded by hand, the design is created by pinching the clay, although the rim is broken, this kind of utilitarian ware was meant to be used hard and then discarded, the people are called Anasazi which means Ancient Ones, larger photos $250.00
#2185 5 3/4" x 3" Mogollon pottery bowl, white decoration on a red slip, light brown micaceous clay paste, prominent fire clouds, probably Kinishba White-on-red, US Southwest, ca. AD 1300-1400, generally in very good condition $495.00
#8965 5"x2" Caddo Pottery, Caddo Indians (Kadohadacho Confederacy), SW Arkansas, ca. 1200 AD - 1500 AD, a shallow bowl, tan with black fire-mottling, a type called Ripley engraved, Ripley Engraved pottery is thought to be slightly older within the late phase, clay tempered with very finely pulverized kaolin and small amounts of charred bone, a polished surface with engraved designs around the outside shoulder, and around the bottom of the inside of the bowl, small chips, restoration $595.00
#8960B 7" x 6" Caddo Pottery, Caddo Indians (Kadohadacho Confederacy), SW Arkansas, ca. 800 AD - 1200 AD, smoothed and polished clay with very fine sand as temper or none, Restoration $1100.00
#9904 3.5"x3" Mississippian grayware pottery, a small water bottle, polished and undecorated micaceous clay with no apparent temper, gray with black fire-mottling, ca. 1200 AD - 1500 AD collected in Arkansas USA, general good condition $300.00
#9905 6.5"x5"x3" Boat shaped pottery, chalky clay with crushed quartzite sand and a small amount of shell as temper, ca.1400 AD, collected in Hickman Co. Kentucky, $450.00
#1130 8"x8" Navajo sand painting on board, 20th C vintage, US Southwest, signed by the artist Nancy Price, and titled "Wedding Vase Pottery", unframed, near mint condition, $55.00
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