Anasazi Culture 10751250 AD Ancient Native American Decorated Ladle Pottery Clay

Water ladle cup from the Anasazi American culture.An ancient native American piece from the Anasazi pueblo culture. This is a water ladle, that was finely modeled from gray clay pottery, fired and then decorated with color pigments creating a checkerboards patterns. The ancestral Pueblo culture, also called Anasazi, was a prehistoric native American civilization that existed from approximately 100 to 1600 AD, centring generally on the area where the boundaries of what are now the US states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah intersect.The people from Anasazi, are best known for their sophisticated dwellings, creating a complex network of roadways, transportation systems, and communication routes. making ornate and highly functional pottery. They were sedentary horticulturalists who lived in pit houses in the early part of the tradition and in above ground adobe or stone houses or apartment blocks in the later part of the tradition. They grew corn, squash, and beans but also relied on wild plants and animals. Turkeys were domesticated.This object have a measurements of 179 mm by 121 mm by 70 mm (17.9 x 12.1 x 7 Cm) (7 by 4.75 by 2.75 inches).Provenance: A private collection in New York city collected in the 1964; T.K. Asian antiquities gallery, Williamsburg Virginia; a private collection in Palm Beach FL; then purchased by James Nancy Markell, Virginia 1976; then by descent to Lauren Markland, Fort Lauderdale, FL.; acquired in Palm Beach, FL. in Mar