#961, Style III Flower Pot Bowl from Pruitt

This Flower Pot Bowl is an example of Style III from the Pruitt Ranch site (sometimes known as the Pruitt site, Pruitt Upton Ranch site, Gorman Ranch site, and Upton-Tigner site). The Pruitt Ranch site is a large Mimbres village that straddles the Grant-Luna county line in southwestern New Mexico. The site has been dated to between A.D. 550 and 1130 and has both Late Pithouse and Classic period components. The Simons family recently donated the Pruitt Ranch site to the Archaeological Conservancy. Local residents, including Dr. Berry Bowen and family, V. F. Tannich, and Richard Eisele dug extensively at the site in the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the pottery taken by Tannich is housed at the University of Arkansas Museum and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Many other bowls from Pruitt reside in other museums and private collections. Relatively little professional excavation has taken place at the site. Darrell Creel (University of Texas, Austin) has undertaken mapping efforts.

此花口钵（"Flower Pot Bowl"）为普里特牧场遗址（"Pruitt Ranch site"）的第三风格器物示例，该遗址亦被称为普里特遗址（"Pruitt site"）、普里特-厄普顿牧场遗址（"Pruitt Upton Ranch site"）、戈尔曼牧场遗址（"Gorman Ranch site"）与厄普顿-泰格纳遗址（"Upton-Tigner site"）。普里特牧场遗址是一座大型米姆布雷斯（"Mimbres"）村落，横跨新墨西哥州西南部格兰特县与卢纳县的县界。该遗址的年代可追溯至公元550年至1130年，同时包含晚半地穴房屋时期（"Late Pithouse"）与古典时期（"Classic period"）的文化遗存。近期，西蒙斯家族将普里特牧场遗址捐赠给了考古保护协会（"Archaeological Conservancy"）。20世纪20年代至30年代，包括贝里·博文（"Berry Bowen"）博士及其家人、V·F·坦尼奇（"V. F. Tannich"）与理查德·艾瑟尔（"Richard Eisele"）在内的当地居民，曾在该遗址开展大规模发掘工作。坦尼奇发掘获取的部分陶器，现收藏于阿肯色大学博物馆（"University of Arkansas Museum"）与圣路易斯艺术博物馆（"Saint Louis Art Museum"）。普里特遗址出土的其余大量钵器，现分藏于多家博物馆与私人收藏机构。迄今针对该遗址开展的专业考古发掘工作寥寥无几。达雷尔·克里尔（"Darrell Creel"，得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）曾牵头开展该遗址的测绘工作。