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Zia Polychrome Storage Jar
(FCHP237)
12 inches tall and dates from about
1920.
This pot is tempered with crushed basaltic rock that is mixed with
brick-red clay.
Classic Zia designs of red and black arches, birds and symbols of water.
Zia Pueblo in New Mexico, is located west of the Rio Grande River on
Jemez Creek, near Jemez and
Santa Ana Pueblos. The Zia Indians had very little farmland so they
produced large amounts of pottery to trade
to other pueblos, for agricultural products.
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