Rare Maricopa Indian Pottery Effigy Vase, by Thelma Bread, CA 1960's, # 1756 SO{LD

Rare Maricopa Indian Pottery Effigy Vase, by Thelma Bread, CA 1960's, # 1756Description: # 1756, Rare Maricopa Indian Pottery Effigy Vase, by Thelma Bread, CA 1960's. Hand coiled and painted vase depicting seated human figure, signed T. Bread.Dimensions: 7" x 5.5"Condition: Superb for its ageSome background on the Maricopa follows:Sometime prior to the mid 1500's, the people known as the Maricopa today started their long migration from the lower Colorado River and ended up at their present location at the confluence of the Gila and Salt Rivers around 1850.The Maricopa are Yuman descendants, however due to intertribal warfare and hostilities between the Maricopa and the Yuman and Mohave's the Maricopa moved and settled among the Pima. The last battle was in 1857, near the Gila River, the Maricopa and Piman defeated the Mohave and Yuman, this was the last fight between the groups.In the 1930s Fred Harvey Labels had helped lead to the confusion of who the Maricopa actually are. In fact, M