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Large and Decorated Cochiti Pueblo Serving Bowl - C3753.11

Category: Pottery | Posted by Adobe Gallery Team Member | Wed, Apr 27th 2016, 3:46pm

Cochiti Pueblo Pottery - C3753.11Pottery from Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos more closely resembles eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Rio Grande Tewa-speaking pueblos than it does that of its other Keresan-speaking neighbors.  The most probable reason is their more isolated location than the other Keresan Pueblos-San FelipeSanta AnaZiaLaguna, and AcomaBrody 2008

 

Unlike other Pre-Columbian North American societies, New Mexico pueblo potters routinely painted designs on utilitarian wares-water jars, storage jars, bowls, and canteens. Why? Perhaps because there was no early tradition of painting on paper and canvas, only on cave walls.  Painting on pottery was a way to demonstrate one's artistic talent on something visible every day in the home.

 

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