Group of three hand-built pottery vessels, two ancient and one vintage. The newest is a Zia Pueblo olla pot hand-painted, hand-painted featuring stylized bird motifs in black linework with red and ochre accents on a light ground. Rounded form with a wide shoulder and slightly tapered base (8.5"H). The second one is hand-built vessel featuring coil patterns carved into the upper body and neck and lower body is decorated with red and cream geometric shapes; contains a note inside "Casas Grandes middle period?" (6.5"H). The third piece has a raised texture all around the body in several colors of clay material. The note inside this says, "Mogollon 12-1350 AD" (9"H).

This group was purchased in a shop located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a note inside one of the pots reads, "Mogollon 1000-1300".

The Mogollon were a prehistoric culture (ca. A.D. 200–1450) that inhabited the high-elevation mountains and canyons of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. Known for their distinctive brownware pottery and pithouse dwellings, they practiced agricultural farming and hunting. They evolved from the earlier Cochise culture, later developing sedentary, village-centered lifestyles and transitioning from pit houses to stone masonry pueblos.

Condition is consistent with the projected age of these pieces being hundreds of years old and not everything is still intact. One of the pots has several pieces missing from the bottom. See photos for more condition details.