Many collectors enjoy adding pottery to their collection if it evidences ethnographic use, that is they want an item that was actually used at the pueblo before being sold to an outsider. Many historic jars and dough bowls were used at the pueblo before leaving for the consumer market, but very little contemporary pottery falls into that category. The exception is small serving bowls. Many chile bowls that were used extensively or minimally at the pueblo from the last half of the 20thcentury eventually appear on the commercial market. Perhaps that is because replacing a small bowl for pueblo use is easier that replacing a water jar or dough bowl or perhaps it is because such small bowls are more affordable.
Read more about this Kewa bowl here.
