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Pueblo Pottery
from
award winning potters
Traditional
Pueblo Pottery is entirely handmade.
Including choosing and sifting the clay, making the
natural dyes, making the yucca brushes, and
making the slip to finish the pottery.
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pueblo pottery gallery
Pueblo Indian
Potters use clay they gather themselves,
usually from sacred tribal land.
They sift and clean the clay as they've done for centuries.
Sometimes
today Indian potters use commercial, ceramic molds
(also called cast or slip-cast or greenware) to save work.
Sedonawolf does NOT sell greenware and many potters frown
upon its use. In our opinion, greenware should be bought
for decorative purposes only - the possibility of greenware
rising in value is slim to none.
The pottery
you see here is from established Pueblo potters
and is entirely made by hand in the traditional
(hand-coiled) way.
The ancient
process of making coiled pottery begins with
the artist gathering clay, plants, minerals, and
shards of broken pottery from the reservation.
The clay is
then cleaned and soaked.
Paints,
dyes and brushes are also made from local plants.
In the most revered pueblo pottery,
old pottery shards are ground down and mixed with the clay.
The shards act as a temper or grout and help prevent the new pot
from shrinking or cracking during the drying process.
Also, old pottery shards provide an important spiritual
connection to the past.
The clay is
rolled and coiled to form the new pot.
After the pot is shaped,
a slip (a fine sand or clay mixture) is applied.
The pot is now polished, painted, and fired.
Some potters fire in kilns others use traditional, outside adobe ovens.
Pueblo Indian hand-coiled pottery is quite collectible and
often increases in value over time.
Older examples of pueblo pottery
are often found in major auctions from companies
like Christie's and Sotheby's.
These are
collectable works of the potter's art
and are meant for display only.
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pueblo pottery gallery
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Sedonawolf New Acquisitions
Here you
will find the most recent additions to our collections.
Whether it be pottery, kachinas, Zuni fetishes, jewelry... every
new acquisition is published on these pages first.
Zuni
Fetish Gallery
Our fetish gallery contains a complete, high
quality Zuni fetish collection.
Whether you are just beginning your collection or have collected Zuni
fetishes
for years we can help you. Our fetish gallery is constantly changing.
Please call us
(800 462 8536)or email for help.
Lifelike Fetish Sculptures
The arrival of
high speed, diamond bit drills to Zuni
has enabled carvers to create stone animals that literally seem alive!!
Click here to see the lifelike animal carvings from accomplished Zuni
masters.
Hopi & Zuni Kachinas
Beautiful Cottonwood root
carvings of
religious and ceremonial icons of the Hopi and Zuni people.
Zuni Beaded
Figures
See a wonderful collection of beaded figures and animals.
Prayer
Feathers and Ceremonial Fans
While our Prayer feathers are made for Native American use, many
non Indigenous people use them and display them as art.
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