Front:
G48
Pueblo Indians of San Ildefonso
Making Pottery Without
Potter's Wheel
Back:
G-48 Pueblo Indians (Julian and Marie of San Hdefonso
Pueblo, N. M.) making pottery without use of potter's wheel as
practiced by their ancestors centuries before the white man's
coming. At left of picture is pile of potter's clay carefully freed
from impurities, this is moistened and worked into long strips.
The vessel is begun in a bowl shaped basket and built up to shape
by coiling the clay strips spirally, then the sides are scraped
smooth with pieces of gourd seen in the background. The pottery
is then left in the bowl shaped baskets to be sun dried. Polish
is rubbed on to the surface by a very smooth stone. The decora-
tion is next applied, by painting moistened pipe clay with a brush
of Yucca fibre. The firing is done over a bonfire covered with
clods of clay and manure. If the desired color is to be black, as
the finished piece in the lower corner of the picture, the fire is in
smudged. Otherwise the reddish color remains.
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