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Acoma Pottery
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Acoma Pueblo Indian Crafts
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Pottery Designs
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The Beauty of Acoma Pottery
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
ACOMA POTTERY
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The spiritual world was and still is incorporated into the designs of Acoma Pottery. What was used as an everyday vessel in times past, became a commodity in the modern world. The clay Pottery of Acoma was and still is molded free-style by hand, using various tools cut from dried squash hulls. As in today's Pottery, it first went through a drying period with the design, before entering a final firing, using dried cow dung.
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Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Vincent C. Vallo, artist & potter
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His indian name means "Flower". A gut r se in Kerasan. His pottery bears this signature. Vincent lost his mother at a very early age and was raised by his grandmother, Gladys D. Vallo. During his formative years, he observed his grandmother making & designing pottery. She was a well known potter & her designs were one of a kind. Vincent is the only one in his immediate family to carry on the tradition of pottery making the way his grandmother did. It may seem unusual for a male to create & make pottery, but many Acoma men are now into this type of art, as well as jewelry making & weaving.
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by Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 3001
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Size: 5 inches wide & 3 3/4 inches deep.
From the gathering of clay soil from the caves (clay has been mined for generations), to the grinding of the clay into a fine powder & the mixing process, the pottery is shaped in an upward motion to a thinness, which is characteristically of the old Acooma tradional way of making pottery.
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by Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 3002
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The slip, a grey-white mixture of chalk, is applied to the pot prior to firing. Once fired, the pot comes out with a white powdery, chalklike polish sheen. If the slip is not applied, the pottery will have a pinkish color after firing.
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by Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 3003
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Size: 5 inches wide and 5 inches deep.
Vincent's designs may include a parrot, which represents rain. Lines represent falling rain, & curves mountains or cloudes. Spots may represent rain drops. Colors of red & yellow represent the sun a a rainbow.
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by Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 3004
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SEEDPOD:
Size: 2 1/2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
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by Vincent C. Vallo
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 3005
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SEEDPOD:
Size: 2 inches wide and 2 inches high
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Thomas Tsethlikai
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Thomas Tsethlikai, artist & potter
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I am a really true native of the Americas, with ties back to the Anasazi. I am from the Acoma Pueblo, and also an artisan from the current generation to the past. As a young child, I watched my grandmother paint potteries, and as I watched, I learned how she designed her potteries. At times, she would allow me to fill in the bigger areas of her potteries. It took me several years to set up my style of designs. Using creativity and also my grandmother's designs, I have been able to come up with my own unique style of pottery.
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Geraldine Tsethlikai, artist and potter
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by: Geraldine Tsethlikai
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 4001
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by: Geraldine Tsethlikai
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 4002
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EARTHEN POTTERY
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by: Geraldine Tsethlikai
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acoma pueblo indian crafts
Acoma Pottery # 4003
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EARTHEN POTTERY
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