Zuni : Historic Zuni Black on White Pottery Pot-Ca 1880 #458 SOLD

Native American Zuni Black on White Pottery 458. Native American, Zuni Black on White Pottery Pot-Ca 1880. A piece very similar to this one is on page 184, figure 13.27 of Dwight Lanmon and Francis Harlows book on the pottery of the Zuni Pueblo. The piece in the figure is dated 1880. It is approximately 5.5" x 7". Has some ware commensurate with the age, but over all in good condition with no cracks or chips. Acquired from a fellow in Florida who picked it up at an estate sale in Provincetown, MA some 15 years ago. A History of 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 potte