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Native American, Southwestern United States, Colorado, Mesa Verde, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), ca. 1075 to 1250 CE. A very fine example of a classic Puebloan artifact, this is a ceramic mug with a flat base, a tall body with a tapered shoulder, a thin rim, and an applied strap handle arching between rim and midsection. The white-slipped body is elegantly decorated with repeated triangular spirals. Vessels like this one were made from a gray or white paste with angular fragments of temper and this one has a pearly gray-white slip that was then overpainted with a black pigment made from carbon. They were made by people who lived in cliff dwellings like those seen at Mesa Verde National Park. Indeed at the Park, there is a large house containing 94 rooms, a kiva, and a water reservoir, known as Mug House because its European discoverers, Charles Mason and the Wetherill brothers, found three mugs hung in one of the rooms from a rope of woven yucca. Size: 4.5" W x 3.5" H (11.4 cm x 8.9 cm) Provenance: ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, 1962-1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, from 1958-1962 All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #147763