my pot

[dump_digger]

I mentioned in another thread I would post a picture of the first thing I found, which is the large pot in this picture (sorry about the quality, my dad took it sitting on the couch and I had to do some considerable cropping). When I was younger I loved to pot hunt and I was little and would basically climb down into any hole anyone could find (The Native Americans in this area were known to hide their pots in the considerable number of caves and crevices that are around). My Uncle Richard stuffed my into a little hole, which turned into a much bigger space and I found this. I was on family private property at the time.



In the picture you can also see a matate, mano's and hammers.

 

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[Buckleberry]

Wow, that's awesome, any chance of close-up pics?

 

[dump_digger]

I'll ask my dad to take it out of that shelf and get some better pictures. This one is the biggest me or any of my brothers have found, but not really the nicest as it's not even painted. I think it was probably just an everyday water jug type of thing. You can't see in the picture but there is a part on the rim that has been notched out, I assume for pouring.
About 25 years ago one of my brothers had me crawl into a cave. It had a really narrow opening and I was on my stomach scooting in and then it dropped down a bit to a pretty good sized room. In the middle was a beautiful black on red pot. But all around the pot was a huge pack rat nest complete with far too many pack rats. I didn't get that pot, and I've never crawled into a cave again.

 

[arrow86]

Awesome finds.... The pack rat cave I'll go in and give you whatever's in there ...lol .. I can't imagine finding something that cool that hasn't been seen or touched by anybody in thousands of years

 

[Mrdigz]

Really awesome find!

 

[joshuaream]

Very nice. Groups in the desert where I occasionally hunt stored food in large pots like that in dry caves.

 

[NCPeaches]

Amazing! I love it!

 

[crj1968]

Wow what a story....that's an awesome find ! Did you find anything else in that same opening?