Native American, Historic Tohono O'odham Cooking Pot, Ca Early 1900's #1323

Native American, Historic Tohono O'odham Cooking Pot, Ca Early 1900's #1323Description: #1323 Native American, Historic Tohono O'odham Cooking Pot, Ca Early 1900's Dimensions: Size: 9.5” x 12"Condition: Very good for its age, has a couple of stress cracks from years of cooking and use in the exterior bottom. I normally do not acquire items with cracks or chips, but these pieces are so rare, I obtained them. Historically, the O’odham inhabited an enormous area of land in the southwest, extending South to Sonora, Mexico, north to Central Arizona (just north of Phoenix, Arizona), west to the Gulf of California, and east to the San Pedro River. This land base was known as the Papagueria and it had been home to the O’odham for thousands of years.From the early 18th Century through to the present, the O’odham land was occupied by foreign governments. With the independence of Republic of Mexico, O’odham fell under Mexican rule. Then, in 1853, through the Gadsden Purchase or Treaty of La Mesil