Vintage Native American Indian Pueblo Pottery Hopi Polychrome Painted Bowl

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Pennsylvania Estate Found 5-3/4\"

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In this sale we have an authentic vintage Native American Indian Hopi bowl. A great polychrome design. Nice Pueblo ware. it measures approx. 2-1/2\" tall by 5-3/4\" in diameter, Hopi is hand written on the base. Overall in good condition with no chips, cracks, or breaks, just minor wear with a few surface scratches. Be sure to see all our photos for specifics! Estate found in Eastern Pennsylvania, what a great piece to add to your Native American Indian collection! Good luck!

Hopi Pottery Making as found on the nativeamerican-art website (GREAT Site!)

In all aspects of Hopi ritual, ideas of space, time, color, and number are all interrelated in such a way as to provide order to the Hopi world. This is true for Hopi pottery making.

It has been suggested that the golden yellow Hopi pottery may have been the inspiration for tales of wealth which lured the early Spaniards to the Seven Cities of Cibola, since to people who did not refine precious metals, gold could have referred to the color.Francisco Porras and two other padres came to the Hopi villages to stay, marking the beginning of the Mission period which brought many changes in Hopi life and even influenced the pottery in the half-century of its duration.

With the establishment of the missions at Awatovi on Antelope Mesa, First, Second and ThirdMesas, sheep were introduced to the Hopi.

Very soon after, pottery was being fired with sheep dung for fuel as it is to this day. The useof coal as a source of heat, for cooking and for firing pottery was abandoned.

Pottery became thicker and heavier than it had been, shapes reverted to the pre-Sikyatki hemispherical bowls and globular jars, and painted decoration was confined to geometric designs as before.

Imitations of wheel-thrown pottery, such as plates with ring bases, were made by Hopi women who saw imported Spanish and Mexican pottery at the missions. The Mission era ended abruptly in 1680 when the Hopis joined the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in the Pueblo Rebellion.

For the next 200 years we have little information about the Hopis or their pottery. The few Spanish, and later Mexican, visitors left some documents to be sure, but mostly on Hopi stubbornness and not on pottery.

Collections of potsherds to tell us what sort of pottery was being made.

The tradition of a yellow ware with black and black and red painted designs continued, and thevessels were thinner and better fired than in Mission times.

Estimated shipping weight, (packaged) is 2 lbs 8 oz in a 10 x 10 x 8 ************What a great find!
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