enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramics_of_indigenous...

    Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.

  3. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_pottery

    [62] Native American modern and contemporary art, and pueblo pottery and other "crafts" face a kind of double jeopardy because in the past not only have "craft-based media" been excluded from American art history, the field has frequently marginalized Native American art and the artists that make these works, relinquishing them to the realms of ...

  4. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture_pottery

    Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell- tempering agents in the clay paste. [ 1 ]

  5. Valdivia culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdivia_culture

    Ceramic phase A of the Valdivia was long thought to be the oldest pottery produced by a coastal culture in South America, dated to 3000-2700 BCE. In the 1960s, a team of researchers proposed there were significant similarities between the archeological remains and pottery styles of Valdivia and those of the ancient Jōmon culture , active in ...

  6. Hopewell pottery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_pottery

    Hopewell pottery is the ceramic tradition of the various local cultures involved in the Hopewell tradition (ca. 200 BCE to 400 CE) [1] and are found as artifacts in archeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast.

  7. Black-on-black ware - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-on-black_ware

    Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945.Collection deYoung Museum María and Julián Martinez pit firing black-on-black ware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Incised black-on-black Awanyu pot by Florence Browning of Santa Clara Pueblo, collection Bandelier National Monument Wedding Vase, c. 1970, Margaret Tafoya of ...

  8. Pre-Columbian art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_art

    Like the Mississippian peoples of North America such as the Choctaw and Natchez, the Maya organized themselves into large, agricultural communities. They practised their own forms of hieroglyphic writing and even advanced astronomy. Mayan art consequently focuses on rain, agriculture, and fertility, expressing these images mainly in relief and ...

  9. Pottery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery

    In art history and archaeology, especially of ancient and prehistoric periods, pottery often means only vessels, and sculpted figurines of the same material are called terracottas. [2] An 18th-century Chinese export porcelain service, for the America market