Anasazi Corrugated Water Pot Pottery

ca. 800 - 1200 AD

9.25" H x 9" D

Hand Coiled from Clay with Corrugated Pattern and Fire Clouds

In Good Condition but Broken and Glued

Anasazi corrugated water pot pottery is a distinctive type of ancient Native American pottery associated with the Anasazi (now more commonly called Ancestral Puebloans). These people inhabited the Four Corners region (parts of modern-day Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico) from roughly AD 200 to the late 13th century.

Corrugated pottery is a utilitarian ware, made using the coil-and-scrape technique: potters built vessels by layering coils of clay, then often left the exterior coils unobliterated (unsmoothed) and indented them rhythmically for a textured, ridged surface. This corrugation started around the 8th-9th centuries with neck-banded designs, evolved to full-body corrugation by the 11th century, and dominated cooking/storage vessels until around the 13th-15th centuries when plain surfaces returned.