The pots were hardened in an open outdoor bonfire reaching 1 300 degrees fahrenheit.
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These antique methods are preserved today.
The ancestral pueblo people created pottery for utilitarian ceremonial functions and rituals and trade.
See artwork with the avanyu design cochiti pottery.
A common design in the pottery of santa clara and san ildefonso pueblos the avanyu represents the importance of water for the pueblo people.
The clay is collected from the hopi mesas then kneaded and processed by hand.
It is made decorated and finally fired the temperatures reached are between 700 and 800 degrees celsius so are not hot enough to vitrify the clay melting the particles together.
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Pueblo pots made only by the women of the tribe are constructed not on a potter s wheel but by hand.
Long sausages of clay are coiled upward around a flat base of clay until the pot reaches the desired height.
Each pot sherd has a story and helps to complete the picture of a people in the absence of a written history.
The railroad greatly affected pueblo pottery culture bringing curious and inquisitive tourists within reach of the artists.
When the coiling is completed the interior and exterior of the pot are smoothed and the round coils are pressed together to form a smooth wall of the pot.
Modern hopi pottery makers use traditional methods to create their artworks.
The pots are then carefully hand constructed using the coil and scrape techniques their ancestors taught them.
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Cochiti pueblo has been making sophisticated clay pottery and figurines for hundreds of years.
There are detailed instructions for making clay and pottery with students on pages 9 12 of the lesson pdf.
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