Category: Art

Pottery of the ancient Pueblos. (1886 N 04 / 1882-1883 (pages 257-360))

The ceramic art 267 Age 267 Material 267 Tempering 267 Construction 268 Surface finish 268 Firing 268 Glaze 268 Hardness 269 Color 269 Form 269 Origin of forms 269 Handles 271 Ornament 271 Origin of ornament 272 Use 272 Classification 272 Coil-made ware 273 Coiling 273 Coiling...

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A great variety of devices were resorted to to diversify and decorate the ribbed spirals, and in this the innate good taste of the Indian exhibits itself to much advantage. The...

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HARDNESS.--The paste exposed in fractured edges can be scratched with a steel point, and often with ease. Some of the white pottery of ancient Tusayan can be carved almost as re...

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The region now inhabited by the Pueblo tribes seems to have been a favorite residence of the ancient peoples. Ruins and remains of ceramic art may be found at every turn, and it...

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At Pecos the art was practiced long after the advent of the conquerors, and later specimens show the archaic decorative ideas worked out in Spanish glaze. The deserted pueblos o...

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Fig. 275 illustrates a very pleasing vessel. It is hemispherical, and about eleven inches in diameter. A narrow zone of ornament based upon the meander encircles the exterior ma...

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OLLAS.--A typical example of the chalky ware of Tusayan is illustrated in Fig. 315. It is a wide, low vase of symmetrical form. The body is flattened above and hemispherical bel...

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The ceramic art 267 Age 267 Material 267 Tempering 267 Construction 268 Surface finish 268 Firing 268 Glaze 268 Hardness 269 Color 269 Form 269 Origin of forms 269 Handles 271 O...

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Another smaller vessel, still more unique in character, is illustrated in Fig. 355. One of the nodes is very much prolonged, giving, with the upright neck, a form rudely suggest...