Some pueblos made effigy vessels, fetishes or figurines. Some utility wares were undecorated except from simple corrugations or marks made with a stick or fingernail, however many examples for centuries were painted with abstract or representational motifs. These items take the form of storage jars, canteens, serving bowls, seed jars, and ladles. The clay is locally sourced, most frequently handmade (not thrown on a potters wheel nor cast in a mold), and fired traditionally in an earthen pit. įor centuries, pottery has been central to pueblo life as a feature of ceremonial and utilitarian usage. Pueblo pottery are ceramic objects made by the indigenous Pueblo people and their antecedents, the Ancestral Puebloans and Mogollon cultures in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Millicent Rogers Museum Hopi water canteen with kachina design, 1890, collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art Ancestral Pueblo, Flagstaff black on white double jar, AD 1100–1200 Pottery of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest
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