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Historic Zuni Pueblo Small Bowl with Red Bottom - C3776A
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Aug 8th 2016, 2:25pm
It is recognized that changes in pueblo pottery occur about every decade with the maturity of a new generation of potters. These changes may not be significant or important and may not be explainable as to why they occurred. We have to accept that there was a reason or were reasons and appreciate that researchers have used these changes to assist in dating pottery.
One change that occurred at Zuni Pueblo was the abandonment of a red underbody on bowls and jars in favor of using a black pigment. It seems that this change began to be noticed around 1850. Over the next 45 years, red pigment was seen less and less on bases, and black appeared more frequently. By 1885, black pigment predominated and by 1895 the use of red disappeared.