Mogollon Indian Pottery

Period I
The earliest Mogollon pottery was a brown and polished redware traditions. The first modifying trends ceramics included increased surface polishing and the techniques of texturing, including incising, brushing, scoring, and neckbanding. In general during the earliest period, the Mogollon pottery complex tends to be somewhat more elaborate in the southern and eastern region of the subarea. It is here that most of the vessel forms have been found, including hemispherical bowls, sub globular or seed bowls, bowls with flaring rims, slender bottles, and small necked jars.

Mogollon Indian Period 2
This period characterized by painted pottery decoration. A red banded painting on brown surfaces most frequently involving the interiors of bowls and utilizing pendant triangles and other rectilinear designs.

Mogollon 3
Red on brown painting revealed a refinement of line and a greater variety of rectilinear designs; but the period is most noted for the first appearance of white slipped pottery, as exemplified by the type Three Circle red on white. At this period, the Mogollon red on brown wares were diffused eastward to the Rio Grande or Jornada region.

Mogollon 4
The Mombers black on white types developed, apparently from the Three Circle red on white and, in general, the northern part of the Mogollon fell under the influence of the black on white pottery tradition of the Anasazi.

Mogollon 5
Mogollon 5 is famous for the Mimbers classic black on white type that region, some of it in both jar and bowl forms. Some of the design were derived from the earlier Mogollon periods. And were highly complex arrangements of triangle, frets, scrolls, and zigzag carried out in hachure and solid black alternating with white areas. More interesting, however,, was adistinctive and charming style of stylized life form painting which was usually expressed on open bowl interior backgrounds. Frogs, rabbits, birds, fish, deer, mountain sheep and human were all portrayed in an exceedingly lively manner despite the basically rectilinear quality of the style. In originality and execution, the Mimbers painted pottery was probably the outstanding aesthetic product of the Southwest.