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Rio Grande Glaze Ware was first made about AD 1315 (based on tree-ring dating at Tijeras Pueblo). It partly displaced an earlier tradition of black-on-white pottery and was inspired by the White Mountain Red Ware tradition (Carlson 1970) centered on the upper Little Colorado drainage of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico.
[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 ...
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 ...
Analysis of local differences in materials, techniques, forms, and designs is a primary means for archaeologists to learn about the lifeways, religious practices, trade, and interaction among Mississippian peoples. The value of this pottery on the illegal antiquities market has led to extensive looting of sites.
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.
Prior to contact, pottery was usually open-air fired or pit fired; precontact Indigenous peoples of Mexico used kilns extensively. Today many Native American ceramic artists use kilns. In pit-firing, the pot is placed in a shallow pit dug into the earth along with other unfired pottery, covered with wood and brush, or dung, then set on fire ...
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The Rio Grande white wares were made along the Rio Grande and adjacent valleys, from the Taos area south to San Marcial. The hallmark of Rio Grande white wares (as for the northern ancestral Puebloan peoples as a whole, from AD 500 to 1300) is the use of black painted designs on smoothed, often slipped, and sometimes polished white or light gray backgrounds.