Coil pueblo pottery

Pueblo Pottery by Jamie Peynetsa - Medicine Water

This rare Tesuque Pueblo pottery dough bowl dates from the mid- to late-nineteenth century, probably circa 1870s. It has design elements in black on a white slip without any red in the design, but the rim is red. The only other red is the traditional wiped-on red band below the design panel.

painting southwest ancient indian pots | Jar, Zia, 1870–1890.

Acoma Pueblo Hand Coiled Pottery

We have been told that there is no word for “art” in the native languages of New Mexico and that what we perceive as art is part of the daily life and experience in a native household. Everything in their world has a connection to their religion and to their daily lives without there being a separation between the two. Beautification of a jar such as this one is accomplished in appreciation to Mother Earth for yielding up the clay and paint sources for the potter to use in making a…

Garnet had a long and productive career of pottery making and was a favorite of collectors of Hopi pottery. Her father was a Hopi and her mother a Tewa. She lived at the Tewa Village on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation. She was an active potter from circa 1940 to circa 1981. She is best known and was fond of making plain red bowls and jars with triangular indentations around the rim as the sole decoration. Often, she made ladles to accompany her bowls. The Museum of Northern Arizona in…

This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.