Posted 6 years ago
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Here is my very lovely big red burnished pot which I think is from a Pueblo, it has an amazing sgraffito design, and micaceous areas, and I think the black marks are fire clouds. Where it was made, or when, I don't know. I love looking at it.
Sorry, but this is not Native American, although it was probably designed to give that impression. It is contemporary pottery from Lombok, Indonesia. They have been combining this particular type of redware with bamboo or rattan for some time, in the last 10 years or so they started etching designs on the pots. No Native American tribe makes anything like this.
If you want to confirm, a web search for "pottery from Lombok Island Indonesia" will show this exact type of pot, made in Penjuak.
And "pueblo", by the way, was a designation given to some southwest tribes encountered by the early Spanish, because they lived in apartment-like structures in settled villages (similar to the pueblos the Spanish were familiar with), as opposed to being nomadic (like the Plains Indians) or living in scattered individual family units (like the Navajo.) There is no "Pueblo" tribe, but 21 different, unrelated, tribes still are around that were considered "puebloan" at one time, or have "Pueblo" as part of their name. Many have recently gone back to their original names in their own language.