Exceptional Historic Cochite Poly Chrome Pottery Canteen # 944 Sold

Exceptional Historic Cochiti PolychromePottery Canteen, ca 1900944. Description: Historic Cochiti poly chrome Pottery Canteen, 1900. Spherical form with strap handles; body painted with spiraling feather elementsCondition: Excellent condition for its age. Dimensions: Height 6 in. x Width 9.25 in-Provenance: From the Collection of Dick Jemison, Alabama Some background on Pueblo pottery:“Pueblo pottery is made using a coiled technique that came into northern Arizona and New Mexico from the south, some 1500 years ago. In the four-corners region of the US, nineteen pueblos and villages have historically produced pottery. Although each of these pueblos use similar traditional methods of coiling, shaping, finishing and firing, the pottery from each is distinctive. Various clay's gathered from each pueblo’s local sources produce pottery colors that range from buff to earthy yellows, oranges, and reds, as well as black. Fired pots are sometimes left plain and other times decorated—most frequen