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HOHOKAM
SACATON RED-ON-BUFF
TYPE:
Sacaton Red-on-Buff
DATE: A.D. 950 - 1125 (Wallace 2003;22)
COMMON FORMS: “Gila Shouldered” jars. Regular shaped, as
well as, helmet bowls, censers, legged vessels as well as effigy vessels.
Most jar rims are sharply returned and have very small necks. Some smaller
jars may have round or normal shoulders. During the Sacaton Phase, along
with small vessels, began producing larger vessels as well.
COMMON BACKGROUND COLORS: Buff to White Slipped.
EXTERIOR TREATMENT: Hand smoothed.
PASTE: May or may not be porous with variable amounts of observable mica that usually is muscovite (silver mica).
DESIGN PLACEMENT: Interiors of bowls, some with three to five (sometimes
paired or tripled) exterior “trailing lines”. Exteriors
of cauldrons. Exteriors of jars with the design beginning at the shoulder
which usually is the maximum diameter of the jar. Some early transitional
types have a sharp Gila Shoulder with the design beginning well below
the shoulder as during the earlier previous phase types. The forms of
these jars are different in that the Sacaton jars have a Gila Shoulder
while the earlier phase jars have normal round bottoms with no shoulder.
Jar rims are sharply returned and have small necks that usually do not
have enough room for a design, hence necks are usually left unpainted
unlike earlier types. Rims may or may not be painted.
KEY DIFFERENCE(S): The paste in Sacaton Red-on-Buff is often porous,
although many examples have few pores. Tucson Basin pottery, generally
is non-porous and tool polished. Sacaton paste often fires a pinkish
color whereas Tucson Basin pottery usually does not. Bowls have no scoring.
Jars have Gila Shoulders with almost no necks. Bowls sometimes have
a few trailing lines. Linework is not as fine as previous phase. Plaited
designs make their first appearance and become common in this phase,
as does wavy capped fringe, negative and positive life forms. Jar designs
begin well below the shoulder on early examples of Sacaton Red-on-Buff,
middle and late examples (the greatest number of Sacaton jars) have
designs beginning at the shoulder which usually is the maximum diameter
of the jar.
TEMPER: Most Sacaton vessels have observable mica on the surfaces.
1Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Shallow Bowl with an off-set quartered design
with scrolls and quail.
It also has four equally spaced "trailing lines" on the exterior.
Approximate Dimensions: 17 3/4" or 45cm by 5 3/4" or 14.5cm.
2N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Gila Shoulder Olla
with a design consisting of S's or 5's framed by wavy capped fringe.
Approximate Dimensions: 17" or 43.2cm. by 11" or 27.9cm.
3N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Scoop with alternating straight and wavy lines.
Approximate Dimensions: 5 5/8" or 14.3cm by 3 3/8" or 8.5cm by 2 1/2" or 6.5cm.
4Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Large Scoop
Approximate Dimensions: 11 1/8" by 6 3/4" by 1/2"
5N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Cauldron with panels of wavy lines and solid rectangles.
Approximate Dimensions: 23" or 58.4cm. by 15" or 38.1cm.
6N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Helmet or Exaggerated Flare-rim Bowl,
with an offset quartered design consisting of solids and panels of fringe-hachure.
The solid in the bottom has a sun design or bulls eye.
Approximate Dimensions: 14 1/2" or 36.8cm. by 7" or 17.8cm.
7Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Flare-rim Bowl
Approximate Dimensions: 7 1/2" by 3"
8N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Horned Toad Rattle Effigy Censer (Side Views).
This extremely rare rattle effigy censer is painted with interlocking scrolls on the
body and concentric wavy lines on the tail, legs, and neck.
Approximate Dimensions: 6 1/4" or 16cm by 3 1/2" or 9cm by 4" or 10.5cm.
9N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Censer.
Approximate Dimensions: 4 1/4" or 10.8 cm. by 2 5/8" or 6.5cm.
10Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Rectangular Censer.
Approximate Dimensions: 3 7/8" by 2 7/8" by 2 1/8"
11Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Rectagular Vessel
The bottom appears to have been formed by pressing wet clay into a woven mat of some sort.
Approximate Dimensions: 9 1/2" by 6" by 3 1/4"
12Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Jar with dancing humans.
Approximate Dimensions: 4 3/4" by 3 1/4"
13N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Jar
Approximate Dimensions: 6 1/2" by 4 1/2"
14Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Shouldered Flared-Rim Bowl
Approximate Dimensions: 13 1/2" by 6 3/8"
15N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Miniature
16N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Human Effigy Handle Scoop
The "handle" on this scoop is a full human effigy with arms and legs. The interior is painted with wavy lines and the exterior is painted with multiple trailing lines.
Approximate Dimensions: 5" or 12.7cm by 3 1/8" or 8cm by 1 3/4" or 4.5cm
17Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Beaker
Approximate Dimensions: 3 5/8" by 3 5/8"
18N Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Miniature Vessel
19Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Shouldered Bowl or Cup.
Approximate Dimensions: 3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
20Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff exterior decorated bowl
that had a squiggle line at the bottom.
Approximate Dimensions: 5 3/8" by 2 7/8"
21Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Bowl (Safford Regional Variety)
Approximate Dimensions: 4 1/2" by 2 1/2"
22Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff (Safford Regional Variety) interior decorated bowl.
Approximate Dimensions: 4 7/8" by 2 3/4"
23Y Hohokam Miniature Sacaton Red-on-Buff Flare-rim Bowl
with possibly a pregnant dog painted on the interior.
It also has four equally spaced trailing lines painted on the exterior.
Approximate Dimensions: 3" or 7.7cm by 1 1/4" or 3.2cm.
24Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Bowl
Approximate Dimensions: 4 1/4 " by 3 5/8 "
25Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Painted Pottery Pipe (extremely rare).
Approximate Dimensions: 11" by 1"
26Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Olla
Approximate Dimensions: 16" by 11 3/4"
27Y Hohokam Sacaton Red-on-Buff Recycled Vessel.
Bowl sherd prehistorically ground into a scoop or spoon.
Approximate Dimensions: 3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
This page last revised: 08/25/2011
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