Effigy : Reproduction Casas Grande Hohokam Male effigy Jar #188

Reproduction Casas Grande Hohokam Make Effigy 188. Description: 6 x 7 inches Reproduction Casas Grande Hohokam Male Effigy Jar has some crazing, good old specimen. Hohokam culture, prehistoric North American Indians who lived approximately from AD 200 to 1400 in the semiarid region of present-day central and southern Arizona, largely along the Gila and Salt rivers. The term Hohokam is said to be Pima for those who have vanished. The culture is customarily divided into four developmental periods: Pioneer (AD 200-775), Colonial (775-975), Sedentary (975-1150), and Classic (from approximately 1150 to sometime between 1350 and 1450). During the Pioneer Period the Hohokam lived in villages composed of widely scattered, individually built structures of wood, brush, and clay, each built over a shallow pit. They depended on the cultivation of corn (maize), supplemented by the gathering of wild beans and fruits and some hunting. Although floodwater irrigation may have been practiced earlier, it