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)
Maria Martinez
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Maria Poveka Montoya Martinez was a Pueblo artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez, her husband Julian, and other family members, including her son Popovi Da, examined traditional P
Pueblo pottery
…the turn of the century, a modern sensibility began to emerge in the work of a Hopi-Tewa potter, Nampeyo of Hano, and a few years later, in the work of María Martinez from San Ildefonso Pueblo. In the 20th century, pueblo pottery entered the commercial marketplace with its primarily Anglo "middle-men" of gallerists…
Martinez c. 1925
An example of Maria Martinez' early redware work, c1925
A black-on-black ware pot by Maria Martinez, c.1945, at the de Young Museum
Polychrome Avanyu plate by Maria and Popovi Da, 1969