#san ildefonso pueblo

[pogphotoarchives]

Maria and Julian Martinez with their second son John, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico

Date: 1926

Negative Number: 026335

[nmnomad]

Puye was one of the ancestral villages of Santa Clara, San Ildefonso and Ohkay Owingeh Pueblos, occupied from about 900 AD to 1580 AD. In the Tewa language, the name Puye translates to "pueblo ruin where the rabbits assemble or meet."

There are extensive ruins at the base of the cliffs and on top of the mesa, with outstanding examples of early Pueblo architecture and stunning panoramas of the Rio Grande valley. The rooms dug into the base of the cliff wall extend for over a mile along the south face of the mesa. There is a secondary level that is about 2100 feet long. The sheer number of cliff dwellings at Puye, and how far they extend, is overwhelming, indicative of a large community.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Edward Sheriff Curtis - Okuwa-Tsire, or 'Cloud Bird,'of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1905.

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“Hold on to what is good, even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do, even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life, even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.”

Nancy Wood

(Ravenous Butterflies)

[old-powwow-days]

Harvest Dance postcard by Jose D. Roybal/ Oquwa

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[punk-antisystem]

Rose Gonzales. San Ildefonso Pueblo. Fotografía tomada por Harold Kellogg en 1931. San Ildefonso Pueblo.- El Pueblo de San Ildefonso es una reserva india de la gente tewa, ubicada en el condado de Santa Fe, en el estado estadounidense de Nuevo México. Sus habitantes hablan la lengua tewa tradicionalmente.

[thebigkelu]

Francisco Vigil, Govr. Pueblo San Ildefonso , Tewa - Vroman - 1900

[armatofu]

[las-microfisuras]

Potter Tonita Roybal : San Ildefonso Pueblo (New Mexico)

T. Harmon Parkhurst

[forever70s]

Blue Corn (aka Crucita Gonzales Calabaza), Tewa pottery artist from the San Ildefonso Pueblo - 1973

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalSkunkDay here’s a trio of 1930s tempera paintings from Museum of Fine arts Houston by the San Ildefonso Pueblo’s Martinez family:

1. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) (1921–71) Untitled (Skunks and Squirrels Under Sky Crescent) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on wove paper 9 5/16 × 11 1/16 in.

2. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) Skunk, Ducks, Rooster 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 9 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.

3. Julian Martinez (1885–1943) Untitled (Skunks and Chickens) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 10 × 11 1/16 in.

[friendswithclay]

“Blue Corn 1920-1999 San Ildefonso pueblo' world famous pottery maker poses for a portrait with one of her pots at her pueblo home”

[pogphotoarchives]

View of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: John K. Hillers Date: 1879 - 1880? Negative Number: 004590

[nmnomad]

Puye Cliff Dwellings | The village consisted of two levels of caves cut into the cliffs and the ruins of a large pueblo on top of the mesa. There are over a dozen “stairs” from the top of the mesa to the base of the cliff. The stairs linked the Community House on top of the mesa to the dwellings at the base of the cliff, as well as to sources of water north of the pueblo.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Looking at the Jémez Mountains from Pʼohwhogeh Ówîngeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), Río Arriba Co, NM at dawn. Photo: Terrance Haanen (Jan 2024) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“The earth is a house of stories. Akeah-de.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

[mybeingthere]

Magdalene Odundo (born 1950) is a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who now lives in Farnham, Surrey. Her work is in the collections of notable museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Museum of African Art.

She has been Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts since 2018.

Magdalene Odundo was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and received her early education in both India and Kenya. She attended the Kabete National Polytechnic in Kenya to study Graphics and Commercial Art and later moved to England in 1971 to follow her chosen vocation in Graphic Design. After training in Farnham, Surrey, she completed her qualifications in foundation art and graphics at the Cambridge School of Art, where she began to specialise in ceramics.

After a while in England she discovered pottery, and in 1974–75 she visited Nigeria, visiting the Pottery Training Centre in Abuja, and Kenya to study traditional hand-built pottery techniques. She also travelled to San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, to observe the making of black-burnished vessels.

Odundo's best-known ceramics are hand built, using a coiling technique. Each piece is burnished, covered with slip, and then burnished again. The pieces are fired in an oxidizing atmosphere, which turns them a red-orange. A second firing in an oxygen-poor (reducing) atmosphere causes the clay to turn black; this is known as reduction-firing. She uses the same types of techniques used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans and likes to take inspiration from countries such as China and Mexico. (from wikipedia)

[southwest-pottery-bracket]

The Bracket!

Thank you to everyone who was interested and everyone who voted! You chose Tusayan (Sosi/Dogoszhi) and Mesa Verde to represent our black-on-whites, and Plain Smudged and Corrugated to represent our utility ware types! (I was not expecting such a plain smudged sweep - I love to see the enthusiasm!)

So, without any more ado, here is the Finalized Pottery Bracket!

There are SO many more pottery types than these 16, and every time I go to a museum or search up on my favorite Southwest pottery reference websites (New Mexico Office of Archaeology's Pottery Typology Project and Northern Arizona University's American Southwest Virtual Museum) I am reminded of just HOW many different pottery styles there are and how I want to show all of them off...

But these sixteen cover a wide range of styles, locations, and time periods, and give a good sweep of pottery history of the Southwest!

Instead of being separated into seeds, they're grouped by theme. More details on each matchup below:

Tournament 1: Northern Polychromes. Salado Polychrome (that is, Roosevelt Red Ware, Pinto/Gila/Tonto polychrome) vs. Fourmile Polychrome (and the closely associate St. Johns Polychrome). Red, white, and black pottery made in Arizona and New Mexico.

Tournament 2: Southern Polychromes. Ramos Polychrome vs. Trincheras Polychrome. Red, black, purple, and cream pottery made in Chihuahua and Sonora.

Tournament 3: Triumphant Black-on-whites. The return of Mesa Verde Black-on-white and Sosi & Dogoszhi Black-on-white, going head to head!

Tournament 4: Yellow-ish wares. Ancestral Hopi Jeddito Yellow Ware (including the dramatic Sityatki Polychrome) from the Hopi Mesas of Arizona vs. Hohokam red-on-buff types (including Sacaton Red-on-buff and Santa Cruz Red-on-buff) from southern Arizona.

Tournament 5: Return of the Utility Wares. New corrugated and new plain smudged types, still mostly from the Mogollon region both, going to single elimination!

Tournament 6: Mexican Originals. Mexican Majolica, in its distinctively popular type Talavera, the brilliantly colored pottery from the Spanish colonial period in the 1600s, is primarily associated with Puebla, Mexico, which is rather far south of our US Southwest/Mexican Northest topic area, but has for centuries been a popular throughout Spanish-influenced Mexico and the US Southwest. Mata Ortiz, meanwhile, is a modern art pottery style developed in the 1960s in Chihuahua, taking inspiration from the archaeological pottery of Paquimé (including Ramos Polychrome).

Tournament 7: Pueblo Revivals. Sikyatki Revival is the name given to the style of Hopi pottery developed by the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo in the late 1800s based on archaeological pottery from excavations at Sikyatki Village; vs. San Juan Revival, a pottery movement by potters of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (formerly known as San Juan Pueblo) starting in the 1930s.

Tournament 8: Modern Pueblo Art. Some of my personal favorite pottery styles picked out from many, many artists working in the Southwest today, Black-on-black (matte black on polished black, or vice versa) pottery developed in the 1910s by a San Ildefonso potter, and still popular primarily in Santa Clara and San Ildefonso Pueblos, vs. Modern Acoma Pottery, a distinctive style in bold reds, whites, and blacks that is just. Gorgeous. You'll see. (I don't mean to diss modern Hopi and Zuni and Navajo and everyone else's styles by not including them, because they're also beautiful and striking, but I had to stop somewhere!)