![]() ![]() Design: All types of lines, repeated elements in parallel bands or panels, interlocking rectangular or curved scrolls, some negative designs, banding, panels of straight lines, hatching, concentric circles, chevrons and triangles, trailing lines, and fringe.Paint: Bright red, dull red, or purplish red.Paste Color: Buff, pink, white, tan, light brown, gray brown, and gray.įorms: Bowls and jars with flaring rims, Gila-shouldered jars, ollas, plates, rectangular vessels, scoops, censors. Surface Finish: Smoothed and slipped with a buff wash or creamy slip (early types unslipped) wiped or lightly polished mica often highly visible porous if vegetative material was present in the clay incised types smoothed on the interior only. Temper: Coarse-grained mica schist, sand, and calcium carbonate nodules. Types include: Estrella Red-on-gray, Casa Grande Red-on-buff, Gila Butte Red-on-buff, Sacaton Red-on-buff, Santa Cruz Red-on-buff, Snaketown Red-on-buff, and Sweetwater Red-on-gray.įiring: In a neutral to oxidizing atmosphere fire clouds common.Ĭore Color: Black, gray, buff, or brick-red. Although production centered in these areas, distribution of Hohokam Buff Ware reached west to the Gila Bend area, east to the San Francisco River, north to the Verde Valley, and south to the U.S.-Mexico border. Hohokam Buff Ware was the primary decorated type made in the Salt and Gila river valleys of central and southern Arizona. Click the image to open the Hohokam Buff Ware gallery. Sacaton Red-on-buff jar from the Museum of Northern Arizona collections. ![]()
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