TYPE: Cedar Creek Polychrome

DATE: A.D. 1300 to 1375 (Carlson, 1970;61)

BOWL DESIGN PLACEMENT: Primary interior designs, secondary exterior designs.

COMMON BACKGROUND COLOR: Orange, occasionally red.

COMMON DESIGNS: A transitional type between Pinedale style and Fourmile style, so the interiors or exteriors can be like Pinedale or Fourmile.  Often one surface of a bowl is painted in one style (Pinedale or Fourmile), while the opposite surface is painted in the other.  Bowl exteriors often have wide black bands and/or continuous patterns outlined in white. Some bowl exteriors will have continuous patterns done in white with black framing and/or banding lines. Some Cedar Creek Polychrome bowls and jars will have Pinedale style patterns (including unit exterior bowl designs) with the only difference being that the framing lines in the design will usually be thicker or heavier than the hatching lines (Carlson 1970;63). Interior and exterior black-on-orange designs often have very fine white outlining. The black paint is often glazy, but occasionally is not.

KEY DIFFERENCES: Transitional between Pinedale and Fourmile style. Thin white linework (usually only 1 mm or 2 mm wide).

 

1Y Cedar Creek Polychrome bowl with an interior design done in Pinedale style,

and an exterior design done more like Fourmile style.

Approximate Dimensions: 7 7/8" or 20 cm. by 3 3/4" or 9.5 cm.

  

 

 

  

2Y Cedar Creek Polychrome Jar.

Heavy or thick banding lines do not connect directly to the design the way they would in Fourmile style, rather they are the same width as the framing lines as in Pinedale style; however, the framing lines are at least twice as wide as the hatching lines as the way they would be in Fourmile style. It is transitional between Pinedale and Fourmile; that is why it is typed Cedar Creek. 

Note the potter's "accident" on the bottom banding line.

Approximate Dimensions: 8" or 20.3 cm. by 6" or 15.2 cm.

  

3N Cedar Creek Polychrome bowl with an interior design done

in Pinedale style and the exterior done in Fourmile style.

 

4Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl

Approximate Dimensions:  12 1/4" by 5 1/8"

  

 

 

5Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Dove Effigy

Approximate Dimensions: 5 1/4" by 4" by 3 3/8"

 

6N Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl

Approximate Dimensions: 6 1/4" by 3 1/2"

 

7N Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl

 

 

 

8N Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl

Approx. Dimensions: 8 1/4" by 4"

 

9Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl

Approx. Dimensions: 8" by 4 1/8"

 

 

 

10Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl with negative parrots.

Approx. Dimensions: 9 1/8" by 4 1/8"

 

 

11Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl with thin exterior white line work.

Approx. Dimensions: 4 5/8" by 2 1/4"

 

 

12Y Anasazi/Mogollon Cedar Creek Polychrome Bowl with somewhat wide exterior white banding lines that average 4mm wide while the white lines in between the banding lines are only 1mm to 2mm wide.

Approx. Dimensions: 10" by 4 1/2"

 

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