Native American, Tohono O'odham Pottery Bowl, Ca 1960's, #1335

Native American, Tohono O'odham Pottery Bowl, Ca 1960's, #1335Description: #1335 Native American, Tohono O'odham Pottery Bowl, Ca 1960's. Vintage hand-painted pottery bowl.Dimensions: Measures about 5 1/4” at it’s widest x almost 4 1/2” tall. Condition: Very good for age.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 Mesilla, O’odham land was divided almost in half, between the United States of America and Mexico.According to the terms of the Gadsden Purchase