Type: Jeddito Black-on-yellow

Name, Origin, Date

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Jeddito Black-on-yellow

United States/Southwes...

1300-1600 CE

Pueblo IV Period, Prot...

Earlier/Alternative Names

Polished decorated ware; Yellow Ware, Buff Ware; Jeddito Yellow; Jeddito Yellow Ware; Jeddi...

General Information

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Jeddito Black-on-yellow is a type of Jeddito Yellow Ware originally described by Fewkes (1898) and later defined by Hargrave (1932). It is attributed to the Ancestral Pueblo from the Pueblo IV period through the end of the Protohistoric period (c.1300-1600 CE). While created on Antelope Mesa and Third Mesa in the Hopi reservation area, remnants of Jeddito Black-on-yellow can be found throughout the Southwest region (Oppelt 2007:63; Dean Wilson 2013 - Southwest Ceramics Typology Project).


Pottery vessels include bowls, jars, ladles, and dippers with a surface color of cream or bright yellow, though occasionally buff and orange. The temper is quartz sand, so fin...

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Morphological Attributes

Bowls; Jars; Ladles; D...

Technological Attributes

"Temper: Fine quartz s...

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"Firing: Oxidizing atm...

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Description

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Information provided by American Southwest Virtual Museum:
Jeddito Black-on-yellow was produced primarily on Antelope Mesa and Third Mesa in the Hopi area, but like other Jeddito Yellow Ware types, is found as a trade ware in northern, central, and east-central Arizona.


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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Jeddito Yellow Ware


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Bibliography

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  1. Oppelt, Norman T. Prehistoric Southwest Pottery Types and Wares. Greeley, CO: Oppelt Publications, 2007

Discussion/Acknowledgements

The American Southwest Virtual Museum cites the following sources:
Colton, Harold and Lyndon L. Hargrave. (1937) Handbook of Northern Arizona Pottery Wares. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin No. 11. Flagstaff, Arizona. 


Lyons, Patrick, and Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin. (2001) Homol’ovi III Ceramics. In Homol’ovi III: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona, edited by E. Charles Adams, pp. 132-226. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 193. University of Arizona, Tucson. 


Smith, Watson. (1971) Painted Ceramics of the Western Mound at Awatovi. Papers of the Peabody Museum of the American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 38. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.


Dean Wilson 2013 - Southwest Ceramics Typology Project cites the following additional sources:
Fewkes, Jesse W. (1898) Archaeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895. 17th Annual Report, 1895-1896, Bureau of American Ethnologlogy, pp. 519-741, Washington D.C. 


Hargrave, L Lyndon. (1932) Guide to Forty Pottery Types from the Hopi Country and the San Francisco Mountains, Arizona. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, No. 1, Flagstaff. 


Hays, Kelley A. (1991) Ceramics. In Homol’ovi II: Archaeology of an Ancestral Hopi Village, Arizona. edited by E.C. Adams and K. A. Hays, pp. 23-49. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, No. 55. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.


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