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A Kokopelli Effigy Pitcher from Northwestern New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Marjorie F. Lambert
Marjorie F. Lambert*
Affiliation:
Museum of New Mexico, Sante Fe, New Mexico
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Abstract

Since effigy vessel forms and anthropomorphic and/or realistic designs on pottery are rare in the prehistoric northern Anasazi area, the Gallup Black-on-white vessel herein reported is extraordinary in that it combines a large so-called bird-form pitcher with both modeled and painted characteristics of Kokopelli, the Humpbacked Flute Player. The vessel, dating ca. A.D. 1000-1150, came from an unnamed Pueblo III site, southwest of the Chaco Canyon, near the McKinley-Sandoval County line, northwestern New Mexico.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 1967 , pp. 398 - 401
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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