Long sausages of clay are coiled upward around a flat base of clay until the pot reaches the desired height.
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The pots were hardened in an open outdoor bonfire reaching 1 300 degrees fahrenheit.
Modern hopi pottery makers use traditional methods to create their artworks.
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The railroad greatly affected pueblo pottery culture bringing curious and inquisitive tourists within reach of the artists.
Each pot sherd has a story and helps to complete the picture of a people in the absence of a written history.
The clay is collected from the hopi mesas then kneaded and processed by hand.
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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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.
Unlike modern pottery that is fired twice or more times pueblo tradition dictates that the pottery is fired only once.
There are detailed instructions for making clay and pottery with students on pages 9 12 of the lesson pdf.
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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.
Cochiti pueblo has been making sophisticated clay pottery and figurines for hundreds of years.
The pots are then carefully hand constructed using the coil and scrape techniques their ancestors taught them.
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The ancestral pueblo people created pottery for utilitarian ceremonial functions and rituals and trade.
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