Pueblo pottery
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Pueblo pottery are ceramic objects made by the Indigenous Pueblo people and their antecedents, the Ancestral Puebloans and Mogollon cultures in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. For
Mimbres fish pot, ca. AD 1000–1150. Millicent Rogers Museum
Hopi water canteen with kachina design, 1890, collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Ancestral Pueblo, Flagstaff black on white double jar, AD 1100–1200
María and Julián Martinez pit firing blackware pottery (c.1920)
Pit fired pottery
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Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE, while the earliest known kiln dates to around 6000 BCE, and was found at the Ya
Pueblo pottery
…utilitarian usage. The clay is locally sourced, most frequently handmade (not thrown on a potters wheel nor cast in a mold), and fired traditionally in an earthen pit. These items take the form of storage jars, canteens, serving bowls, seed jars, and ladles. Some utility wares were undecorated except from simple…
Pottery firing mound in Kalabougou, Mali, a very large form of firing pit.
Removing the fired pots, Kalabougou, 2010