Posted 5 years ago
Jingram2
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Can anyone give information on this piece? Age, tribe, location? Antique handmade indian pottery piece.
Southwestern Indian head pottery | ||
| Mexican Pottery41 of 196 |  |  |
Southwestern Indian head pottery | ||
| Mexican Pottery41 of 196 | | |
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Posted 5 years ago
Jingram2
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Can anyone give information on this piece? Age, tribe, location? Antique handmade indian pottery piece.
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Shibipo perhaps?
This appears turned. Before the honkies arrived and screwed up their paradise, the Amer. Indians didn't how to turn bowls etc.. The "civilized" tribes like the Lower Creeks of the S.E. may have learned to turn pottery as early as 1770's, but it seems to have been slow further west. I'm not sure if the idea ever made it to the left coast. LOL !!
This is not Native American or Indian pottery. It is Mexican, from the village of Mata Ortiz, in northern Chihuahua. Pottery has been made in Mata Ortiz only since the late 1970s. It looks old, because the first pottery was copied from prehistoric Indian pottery from the nearby Paquime ruins. It is all hand made, without the use of a potter's wheel, similar to Indian pottery. No traditional Native American potters ever used a potter's wheel.
None of the potters claim any tribal affiliation, however, and today most have developed their own style, rather than copying prehistoric Indian pots. Sill recognizable as from Mata Ortiz, but officially recognized and classified as contemporary Mexican Art Pottery by the Mexican government.