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  2. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    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. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Category:History of ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Native American pottery (2 C, 7 P) P. ... Pages in category "History of ceramics" ... Ancient Egyptian pottery; Ancient Roman pottery; Anna Pottery; The Arcanum ...

  5. Henry Chapman Mercer - Wikipedia

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    Mercer founded Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in 1898 after apprenticing himself to a Pennsylvania German potter. He was also influenced by the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Mercer is well known for his research and books about ancient tool making, his ceramic tile creations, and his engineering and architecture.

  6. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  7. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Orange period - Wikipedia

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    The Orange period or culture is defined by the presence of Orange-series ceramics. Ripley P. Bullen classified Orange-series pottery into five chronological periods, based on shape, decoration, method of construction (hand-shaped or coiled), and the presence of other tempers besides fiber.

  9. Nampeyo - Wikipedia

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    Nampeyo became increasingly interested in ancient pottery form and design, recognizing them as superior to Hopi pottery produced at the time. Lesou, her husband, was reputedly employed by the archaeologist J. Walter Fewkes at the excavation of the ancient ruins of the Hopi village Sikyátki on the First Mesa in the 1890s. Lesou helped Nampeyo ...