The lot features a circa 950-1250 A.D. Chaco Canyon, Anasazi pottery bowl. This is a very well preserved piece of pottery from the Four Corners region, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico area, Pueblo I or Pueblo II Anasazi period, circa 950-1250 CE. The bowl shows a black on white (natural) painted finish with a zig-zag pattern around the body of the bowl and geometric dramatic pattern inside the bowl. Scholars believe that many of these designs were inspired by weather and landscape phenomena in the high desert areas in which the Anasazi-Chaco tribes resided. As noted by Artemis Gallery about Chaco pottery; Pottery of this kind is some of the most important found in the ancient Southwest. The Chaco Project, the major excavations of Chaco Canyon (today a National Historical Park that is well worth a visit), recovered more of this pottery than any other style. Chaco was the center of the ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, a vast city of monumental architecture, including massive stone Great Houses of multiple stories and kivas of all sizes. Roads from Chaco Canyon radiated to outlying settlements for hundreds of miles, and it seems to have been a religious, social, and trade hub for a vast region. Today many Native peoples in the Southwest connect their own histories to Chaco, seeing it as a stop along their sacred migrations. The pottery bowl overall measurements are 2 7/8" x 8" x 7 3/4