Native American Acoma Pueblo Indian Pottery (11/28/2006)

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Sold Date: 11/28/2006
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Click to learn more about Chief Joseph Indian Art Trading Co.! Traditional Hand-Coiled Acoma Olla
by M. Victorino
Dimensions:
8" Tall
9" Diameter
Mouth is 4 1/2" Wide
This vessel is hand-made in the traditional way that has been developed at the Acoma Pueblo over centuries.

Best known for intensely white with a matte finish and finely detailed black cross-hatching, interlocking scrolls, and repeated geometrical motifs, Acoma pottery often achieves Escher-like optical illusional patterns adapted to the shape of the vessel. Typically, Acoma pottery is extremely thin-walled, the thinnest in the Southwest.

This vessel is made of Acoma clay, from a secret source, is hard-fired, making durable lightweight walls that ring if tapped.

The artist who created this is Monroe Victorino, from the Victorino Family, well-known Acoma artists.

Acoma is one of the 19 pueblos in New Mexico. The Acoma tribe still resides in its aboriginal location on a reservation of some 263,000 acres about an hour west of Albuquerque. Sky City, the tribe's main pueblo, sits atop a 400-foot mesa high above the surrounding plain. It vies with Taos and the village of Oraibi in Hopi for the title of oldest continuously inhabited place within the United States: this artist and her ancestors have lived in this pueblo looking out over the awesome landscape for at least one thousand years.

This pot is a magnificent piece of art.

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