Corrugated Pot

Every prehistoric southwestern cook's dream, the corrugated cooking pot is backlit by 10,000 stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A companion galaxy to our own Milky Way, the LMC also exhibits glowing gas and dark patches of interstellar dust. It is only visible from the southern hemisphere and was named after Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan who explored much of that area. (PR99-44: NASA, Hubble Heritage Team, STScI, AURA.)

This ancient pot from Pueblo Viejo in the Gila Valley of Arizona graced the pages of  the Journal of the Bureau of American Ethnology's Annual Report around 1900. This lithograph resides in a private collection detached from the bound volumes. It's color may not be an accurate rendition of the artifact. The area was occupied by numerous southwestern tribes.

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