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Marie Zieu Chino (1907–1982) was a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Marie and her friends Lucy M. Lewis and Jessie Garcia are recognized as the three most important Acoma potters during the 1950s. Along with Juana Leno, they have been called "The Four Matriarchs" who "revived the ancient style of Acoma pottery."
Rachel Concho (born 1936) is a Native American artist and potter of the Acoma Pueblo.She is best known for her painted seed jars: small circular pots, nearly closed except for a small hole at the top, used for storing seeds from one harvest for planting in the next.
Vera Chino Ely (born June 27, 1943) is a Native American potter from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico.She is the youngest daughter of Marie Z. Chino, who was also a potter.Vera learned from her mother.
She began making pottery at age eight, after studying with her great aunt, Helice Vallo, and other Acoma Pueblo women. [1] Both of her parents occasionally worked in the nearby town, Grants. Her early pottery was made for tourists. The ash-bowls were easily made and sold for five or ten cents. [3] In the late 1910s, Lewis married Toribio ...
Pottery dating to the Stone Age (c. 8000 BCE) has been found in Bắc Sơn, Vietnam. This pottery was made from clay, and in its beginnings was largely basic and lacking any artistic flare. Moving into the neolithic era, however, Vietnamese pottery and ceramics started to develop rapidly, showing signs of decor.
Pottery mound polychrome ware was often slipped with a different color on the inside of the vessel than on the exterior. [29] It was then decorated with various mineral paints before firing, in red, black and ochres. Ceramics found at Pottery mound was not only produced there, but imported from as far away as Hopi, Acoma and Zuni lands. [30] [31]
The pottery is made of fine local clay found on the pueblo to create the distinctively thin-walled pottery. The pottery is made in white and black and polychrome colors. Designs are pressed into all-white pottery with a fingernail or tool. [17] Potters from Acoma Pueblo during the 1950s include Marie Z. Chino and Lucy M. Lewis.
Vietnamese pottery and ceramics has a long history spanning back to thousands of years ago, including long before Chinese domination, as archeological evidence supports. Much of Vietnamese pottery and ceramics after the Chinese-domination era was largely influenced by Chinese ceramics , but has developed over time to be distinctly Vietnamese. [ 1 ]