When the coiling is completed the interior and exterior of the pot are smoothed and the round coils are pressed together to form a smooth wall of the pot.
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The clay is collected from the hopi mesas then kneaded and processed by hand.
A common design in the pottery of santa clara and san ildefonso pueblos the avanyu represents the importance of water for the pueblo people.
The pots are then carefully hand constructed using the coil and scrape techniques their ancestors taught them.
It is made decorated and finally fired the temperatures reached are between 700 and 800 degrees celsius so are not hot enough to vitrify the clay melting the particles together.
Cochiti pueblo has been making sophisticated clay pottery and figurines for hundreds of years.
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These antique methods are preserved today.
There are detailed instructions for making clay and pottery with students on pages 9 12 of the lesson pdf.
Pueblo pots made only by the women of the tribe are constructed not on a potter s wheel but by hand.
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The pots were hardened in an open outdoor bonfire reaching 1 300 degrees fahrenheit.
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Modern hopi pottery makers use traditional methods to create their artworks.
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The ancestral pueblo people created pottery for utilitarian ceremonial functions and rituals and trade.
Long sausages of clay are coiled upward around a flat base of clay until the pot reaches the desired height.
Unlike modern pottery that is fired twice or more times pueblo tradition dictates that the pottery is fired only once.
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Each pot sherd has a story and helps to complete the picture of a people in the absence of a written history.
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