Acoma Pottery Handmade : Native America Small Acoma Pottery Polychrome Olla #248

Acoma Pottery Handmade 248. Description: 6 " x 4"  Acoma Olla, Polychrome, estimated age is 1930'-40's. Ware commensurate with age. No cracks or repairs and very thin walled traditional construction. Pueblo pottery is made using a coiled technique that came into northern Arizona and New Mexico from the south, some 1500 years ago. In the four-corners region of the US, nineteen pueblos and villages have historically produced pottery. Although each of these pueblos use similar traditional methods of coiling, shaping, finishing and firing, the pottery from each is distinctive. Various clay's gathered from each pueblo's local sources produce pottery colors that range from buff to earthy yellows, oranges, and reds, as well as black. Fired pots are sometimes left plain and other times decorated most frequently with paint and occasionally with applique. Painted designs vary from pueblo to pueblo, yet share an ancient iconography based on abstract representations of clouds, rain, feathers, bird