Bird Pottery : 1950's Minature Acoma Zia Bird Polychrome Pottery Jar #251 SOLD

Bird Pottery 250. Description: From a Southwestern Americana Collection Scottsdale AZ, Estate. A 1950's Acoma Zia Bird Pottery Jar, signed Acoma, N. Mex., measures 4'' x 5'', and features 2 opposing Zia birds along with flowers and geometric and abstract lines and designs, very traditional. Excellent condition. 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 pue