Indian Pottery - complete!

[KatKat]

The field in the back of my house was being dug up because of the beginning of a small sinkhole, and to my surprise the workers found a Native American Indian-made vase, fully intact! I was so utterly astounded that I rushed to make an account on this site to ask if anyone would be knowledgeable enough to know more about its history than "that Native American Indian vase." Here is a picture of the vase right after it was found this morning, and the following ones are from after I attempted to carefully clean it up. Does anyone know a good way to take care of this? Or should I take it somewhere to be taken care of?



Thanks in advance for your help! I am SO excited about this!!!

 

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[NCPeaches]

Absolutely awesome! What part of the states do you live in?

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Kat
Wonderful bowl nice find !
Gary

 

[Jon Stewart]

OUTSTANDING

 

[Americus]

That is an awesome find. Thanks for sharing

 

[rock]

Nice vase can we see the inside and the bottom of it?

 

[Charl]

I wonder how it got buried? It looks like it needs no care other then don't drop it! It looks modern for sure. Wrapped in a large garbage bag and buried? Nice surprise!

 

[curious kat]

...that is a pretty new looking piece you found, maybe whoever lived there before you buried it there? It has a very "different" kind of pattern, not seen one like that before....and yes, what part of the country are you in?

 

[joshuaream]

It's certainly not ancient, but it looks like a decent old example of an San Idelfonso Olla or related Pueblo pottery. It could be ery, very collectable to collectors to collectors of historic Puebloan pottery. Or it could be a worthless copy. Neat find.

Tourists bought thousands of these pieces, and many have been found in flower beds or as landscape art.

 

[monsterrack]

Katkat 1st we need to know what part of the USA you are in and was it wrapped in that plastic bag, we need more details so we can make a guess about type ,age and what you should do with it.

 

[Neanderthal]

As Josh suggested, it's most likely a tourist piece that someone picked up on their travels to the southwest. The vessel form and design makes me think that it originated from the Acoma Pueblo. A great number of Acoma potters didn't sign their work, but you'll want to look on the bottom to make sure.