Snowflake Red Ware

Snowflake Red Ware1000 – 1250 A.D.Ancestral Puebloan Pottery

Key facts

Age: 1000 – 1250 A.D.
Cultural period: Ancestral Puebloan Pottery
Material: Fine to medium sand-tempered clay with a red slip coating. Black mineral pigment is used for painted motifs.

Description

Snowflake Red Ware is a Mogollon/Western Pueblo ceramic type defined by red-slipped surfaces and black painted decorations. Designs include straight-line motifs, triangles, and geometric banding. Bowls and jars are common, often with slightly recurved rims.

Size

Typical bowl diameters range from 14–26 cm; jar heights range 18–30 cm. Walls average 5–8 mm in thickness.

Distribution

Found primarily around the Snowflake–Taylor region in east-central Arizona.

Mainly found in

Additional information

Snowflake Red Ware is closely related to other Mogollon red wares but has distinctive painting styles that make it recognizable within eastern Arizona ceramic sequences.

Back to all 1,008 types