Santa Clara pottery today

Description:

This book combines extensive research with interviews granted by three Santa Clara potters. During the interviews, the author recorded and photographed each step -- from clay pit to market -- in the making of contemporary Santa Clara pottery. Collecting and preparing the clay, making slips and paints, modelling various kinds of vessels, sanding, smoothing, slipping, polishing, decorating, firing -- all are described and illustrated so thoroughly that the reader can experiment with the Santa Clara techniques himself if he wishes.

subjects: Indian pottery,  Pottery,  Tewa pottery,  Tewa Indians,  Indians of North America,  Pueblo pottery,  Pottery, american

Places: New Mexico,  Santa Clara Pueblo,  Santa Clara Pueblo (N.M.)