Vintage Dora Jojola Isleta N.M Large Pueblo Geometric Native Clay Pottery Jar

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Vintage Dora Jojola Isleta N.M Large Pueblo Geometric Native Clay Pottery Jar. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
9” x 11 1/2”
In excellent condition
Vintage Dora Jojola Isleta New Mexico Large Pueblo Geometric Native Clay Pottery Jar
The item up for offer is a hand made vintage Pueblo clay jar bowl by the potter Dora Jojola from the Isleta Pueblo New Mexico. This peice features a traditional Pueblo geometric black, white and red design. The bottom of this piece is signed "Dora Isleta N.M".
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Pueblo of Isleta or Isleta Pueblo is an unincorporated community Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established around the 14th century. The native name of the pueblo is Shiewhibak meaning "a knife laid on the ground to play whib", a native footrace.Pueblo pottery, one of the most highly developed of the American Indian arts, still made today in a manner almost identical to the method developed during the Classic Pueblo period about ad 1050–1300. During the 5 previous centuries when the Pueblo Indians became sedentary, they stopped using baskets for carrying & began to manufacture & use clay pots, which had been cumbersome, breakable, and generally unsuited to their former nomadic lifestyle. Pueblo pots, made only by the women of the tribe, are constructed not on a potter’s wheel but by hand. Long “sausages” of clay are coiled upward around a flat base of clay until the pot reaches the desired height; when the coiling is completed, the interior and exterior of the pot are smoothed, and the round coils are pressed together to form a smooth wall of the pot. Pots are then coated with slip, a watery clay substance, polished, decorated, and fired.