Southwest pottery

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.

Authentic handcrafted art and media from artists of Santa Clara Pueblo including finely etched traditional and contemporary pottery

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

View an example of how pueblo potters have traditionally stayed with design patterns used by their mothers and grandmothers and rarely deviated from that policy, including Santo Domingo Pueblo.

African pottery is a diverse and rich tradition of crafting functional and decorative ceramics across the African continent. It varies greatly in terms of style, technique, and purpose, reflecting the cultural diversity of Africa's numerous ethnic groups. These pottery pieces often feature intricate designs, patterns, and symbols that carry cultural and spiritual significance.

View how Acoma Pueblo potters have adopted the ancestral Tularosa pottery designs since the mid-twentieth century. They innovate and create rather than copy Tularosa designs but the influence is obvious.

View how it appears that this Kewa pottery bowl served pueblo purposes before finding its way to the market. There is some wear pattern to the interior.

The Weisman Art Museum holds a large collection of Mimbres painted pottery (1000 to 1150), resulting from an excavation in Southern New Mexico by university faculty and students from 1929 to 1931. Pottery, jewelry, ceramic miniatures, animal bone awls, and other tools were transferred from the Department of Anthropology in 1992. Today, no one in anthropology studies this collection. And, in the decades since the excavation, both the science of archaeology and perceptions about Native…

Photographs of Pueblo and southwest Indian pottery and potters.