Adobe Gallery Blog

Cochiti, at the turn of the last century, made very little pottery for local use, importing it instead from Acoma, Zuni and Zia Pueblos.  What pottery the potters were making was mostly limited to figurative type-effigy vessels and human and animal figurines.  Production of functional pottery vessels increased later in the 20^th century as potters discovered that tourists and collectors were interested in bowls and jars as well as figurines.

Read more about this historic bowl here.