Puebloan Peoples - Pottery

Pottery

There is a short history of creating pottery among the various Pueblo communities. Mera, in his discussion of the "Rain Bird" motif, a common and popular design element in pueblo pottery states that, "In tracing the ancestory of the "Rain Bird" design it will be necessary to go back to the very beginnings of decorated pottery in the Southwest to a ceramic type which as reckoned by present day archaeologists came into existence some time during the early centuries of the Christian era."

• Pottery of the Pueblo people, Field Museum, Chicago

• Zia Pueblo, pottery bowl, Field Museum

• Tesuque Pueblo Pottery Jar, Field Museum

• Acoma Pueblo, bowl. (background: Tesuque jar.) Field Museum

• Acoma Pueblo, pottery jar, Field Museum

• Tesuque Pueblo, Pottery Jar, Field Museum

• San Ildefonso Pueblo, Black-on-Black Pottery Bowl. Field Museum

• Bird effigy, pottery. Cicuye Pueblo, Field Museum

• Deer effigy, pottery. Cicuye Pueblo, Field Museum

• Pottery Jar, Acoma Pueblo, taken at Field Museum

• Pottery Canteen, Acoma Pueblo, taken at Field Museum

• Pottery Bowl, Jemez Pueblo, Field Museum, Chicago