Beautiful Patterned Red Casas Grandes Bowl - Impressive

Beautiful Patterned Red Casas Grandes Bowl - Impressive

Start price	49.99 USD
Current price	49.99 USD
Start time	06/21/2008
End time	06/28/2008
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Beautiful Patterned Casas Grandes Bowl It is in PERFECT condition! This bowl is one of my favorites. It's very impressive in person. This is guaranteed 100% authentic! Worldwide shipping   Starting this at a LOW price!    I have very few of these small pieces left that were collected over 40 years ago by my father. My father was a world famous collector of Pre-Columbian art that traveled the world for museums and individual collectors! Email me questions. Casas Grandes - Between AD 1130 and 1300, the area's inhabitants began to congregate in small settlements in this wide fertile valley. The size of the settlements expanded during the 14th century, ultimately resulting in multi-storied communities which may have housed up to 2500 people. The larger communities are characterized by I-shaped ball courts, stone-faced platforms, effigy mounds, a market area and an elaborate water storage system. Specialized craft activities included the production of copper bells and ornaments, the manufacture of beads from marine molluscs,extensive pottery production. These crafts were probably distributed by an extensive trading network. Casas Grandes pottery has a white or reddish surface, with ornamentation in blue, red, brown or black, and is sometimes considered of better manufacture than the modern pottery in the area. Effigy bowls and vessels often formed in the shape of a painted human figure. Casas Grandes pottery was traded as far north as New Mexico and Arizona and throughout northern Mexico. The largest identified settlement is known today as Paquime or Casas Grandes. It began as a group of 20 or more house clusters, each with a plaza and enclosing wall. These single-story adobe dwellings shared a common water system. Excavations in one compound produced eggshell fragments, bird skeletons and traces of wooden perches which led to the conclusion that the community raised scarlet macaws, important in Mesoamerican rituals. This community was almost completely rebuilt during the 14th century. Multi-storied apartment buildings replaced the smaller dwellings. Paquimé was abandoned in the early 15th century. A major collection of Casas Grandes pottery is currently held by the Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah