Southwest Pueblo
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One of the fascinations of collecting Native American art is that it represents an origin bound to the centuries past. Every piece is fabricated, decorated and fired using techniques perfected in the Southwest sometime between 700 AD and 1200 AD, the period of the Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollon, Mimbres and other prehistoric ancestors of today's artisans.
Pottery making is concentrated in the Pueblos of the Southwest, primarily because these were inhabited by the farmers of the past. As such, they were mostly sedentary, and thus they substituted more functional, but fragile pots for hide bags, twine bags and baskets.
A visit to any of the Pueblo's of New Mexico and Arizona is a step into the world of Southwestern Art,much of it ceramics. Names like Acoma,Jemez,Santa Clara,San Ildefonso,Hopi,Cochiti,Zia,and Zuni bring visions of beautiful pottery made by Maria Martinez,Lucy Lewis,Marie Chino,Nampeyo,Joseph Lonewolf,and others.
To own a piece of southwestern pottery is to own part of history.
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