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- Description
- Wide basket made of coyote willow branches (Salix exigua). Color patterns are created using stripped (light) and unstripped (dark brown) branches. The base (16 cm diameter) is made of closely woven unstripped branches. The first five centimeters of the side is made of closely woven stripped branches. The remainder of the side is made of loosely woven groups of four unstripped branches in interlocked parabolas.
- Date of Photo
- 2005
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 24384
- Description
- New Mexico, Black Mesa, Charred seeds chart from Basketmaker II sites.
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 17139
- Description
- New Mexico; Puyé Comanche Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 29, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16901
- Description
- New Mexico; Puyé Navajo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 29, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16900
- Description
- New Mexico; Puyé Navajo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 29, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16899
- Description
- New Mexico; P III
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16893
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16870
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance- women's costumes
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16869
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance- women's costumes
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16868
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance- San Ildefonzo Church
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16867
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance- men's costumes
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16866
- Description
- New Mexico; Basket Dance- men's' costumes
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16865
- Description
- New Mexico; Butterfly Dance (food and gift distribution).
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16864
- Description
- New Mexico; Butterfly Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16863
- Description
- New Mexico; Butterfly Dance (food and gift distribution)
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16862
- Description
- New Mexico; Butterfly Dance (food and gift distribution)
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16861
- Description
- New Mexico; Butterfly Dance- food and gift distribution
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16860
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16859
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16858
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16857
- Description
- New Mexico; Pipe Dance- dance formation
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16856
- Description
- New Mexico; Pipe Dance- parade formation
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16855
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Spring Dance- blessing the spruce
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16854
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Spring Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16853
- Description
- New Mexico; Woman's Spring Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16852
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16851
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16850
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16849
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16848
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16847
- Description
- New Mexico; The Winter Buffalo Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 4, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16846
- Description
- New Mexico; The Rainbow Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16845
- Description
- New Mexico; The Rainbow Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16844
- Description
- New Mexico; The Rainbow Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16843
- Description
- New Mexico; The Rainbow Dance
- Date of Photo
- Jul. 15, 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16842
- Description
- New Mexico, cumulus cloud formation
- Date of Photo
- 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16841
- Description
- New Mexico, double rainbow
- Date of Photo
- 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16840
- Description
- New Mexico, rainbow
- Date of Photo
- 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16839
- Description
- New Mexico, looking westward
- Date of Photo
- 1979
- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 16838
- Description
- This is Felipe Ortega, recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as a master of Jicarilla Apache and Hispanic micaceous traditions. Taught by an Apache Woman in 1970, Felipe has been a full-time potter since 1978.
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- These finished pots are hot out of the fire. The black one has been intentionally smudged. The golden one is called a Wedding Vase
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- All vessels are covered with tree bark (Pine or Cedar) or thin slabs of wood
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- The fire is started and pots are placed within it on a metal grate
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- Before firing, pots are preheated to remove any remaining water from the pores in order to insure a successful firing (no explosions)
- Date of Photo
- Jun. 1, 2000
- Description
- Sanded vessels are slipped with a clay slurry rich in large mica flakes. This gives the pottery its characteristic glittering appearance
- Date of Photo
- Jun. 1, 2000
- Description
- Once dry, the pots are sanded with sandstone obtained from the Santa Fe Formation (Pleistocene) that is present throughout the Chama Valley. Sandstone sanding is followed by a finer grit sandpaper sanding. Felipe Ortega in his backyard.
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- The vessels are allowed to fully dry after scraping
- Date of Photo
- Oct. 1, 2003
- Description
- Once dry, vessel walls are made even by scraping with a metal tool (mica clay is very hard when dry). A clay slurry is added to the surface and the tool is used to scrape wet and dry clay away, knocking down high spots, while adding clay to low spots
- Date of Photo
- Jun. 1, 2000
- Description
- The vessel can be shaped further once the hole is closed, much like a pliable balloon.
- Date of Photo
- Jun. 1, 2000
- Description
- The lid hole is closed, creating an air bubble from within that will help the vessel retain a beautiful shape until it is dry
- Date of Photo
- Jun. 1, 2000