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 Water jar and burden basket Navajo, ca. 1800 Lukachukai Mountains, Arizona 1150/12, 1152/12 |
Clay-covered and pitched basketry jars were used by many cultures of the Southwest for carrying and storing water. This twill-twined jar and wicker-weave burden basket were found in a cache in the Lukachukais, southwest of the 18th-century Dinétah. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Storage jars Right: Navajo, ca. 1650-1750 Gobernador Gift of Louis Balsam 8611/11 Center: Spanish Colonial, ca. 1600-1700 Left: Navajo, ca. 1650-1750 |
Dinetah Grey, the most common Navajo pottery in the Gobernador, may be made as early as the mid-1400s. It remained in use at hogan sites and pueblitos through the 1700s. The Spanish Colonial oil or wine jar came to the Gobernador via the Camino Real from northern Mexico, then out to the Navajo country on a Spanish expedition or through trade. The jar was probably more valuable to the Navajo than its contents. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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