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Angela Baca has long been associated with her ability to produce beautiful red and black jars, some with melon ribs and others with bear paw depressions into the clay. Works in these styles are first coil-formed with a large diameter coil of clay and allowed to dry to a leather-hard state, whereupon they are carved with the distinctive ribs or bear paw depressions. After carving, the pottery is slipped in iron-bearing red slip, intricately stone-polished and then fired in either a smothered, reduction atmosphere to achieve the superb black finish or in an oxidizing atmosphere to achieve the red finish.

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