page_title: Ceramics of indigenous peoples of the Americas
section_title: Pueblo cultures
hierarchical_section_title: Ceramics of indigenous peoples of the Americas / Cultural regions / North America / Pueblo cultures
caption_attribution_description: Chaco Anasazi bowl.
context_page_description: Native American pottery is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, pipes, funerary urns, censers, musical instruments, ceremonial items, masks, toys, sculptures, and a myriad of other art forms.
  Due to their resilience, ceramics have been key to learning more about pre-Columbian indigenous cultures.
context_section_description: Ancestral Pueblo
  Mogollon culture, including Mimbres culture, which produced Mimbres pottery
  Santa Clara Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, Hopi, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo and the Zuni. Noted individuals involved in Pueblo pottery include Nampeyo of the Hopi, and Maria and Julian Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo.  In the early 1900s, Maria Martinez and her husband Julian rediscovered how to make the traditional Black-on Black pottery, for which San Ildefonso Pueblo would soon become widely known.
caption: Ceramic bowl from Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Pueblo III phase
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