Pinched pots With a tribal design. Gently insert thumb into center of clay.

Pinched pots

With a tribal design

Gently insert thumb into center of clay

Slowly Pinch pot & rotate

Make Consistent (even) walls

Using underglaze glaze (paint) your piece

onto either:

Greenwareor

Bisque

Greenware

• Clay objects that have dried but have not yet been fired

Bisque

•Ceramic pottery that has been fired but not glazed

Underglaze•Use underglaze for all detailed

•paintings

• letterings

Under glaze

• Frit contains silica which is one of the main ingredients in glaze. 

• silica causes the underglaze to "melt”

Graded on:• Consistent walls

• Uniqueness

• Tribal design (repetition)

• Professionalism

• Written statement: TBD

The Anasazi tribe• located in the Four Corners

region • New Mexico • Colorado• Utah• Arizona

Anasazi home Mesa Verde, CO

Pictograph (found on the cave walls)

a graphic symbol or picture representing a word or idea

Anasazi existed around two thousand years ago

• thought to be the ancestors of modern Indian tribes like the Hopi, the Zuni and the Pueblo

Most Anasazi pots were made with round rather than flat

bottoms.

• The pots were made from sandstone and shale clay, and covered in beautiful black or red geometric designs.

Firing• Pots were fired in a pit

• Charcoal, bones and animal fat feed the fuel

• The colors are carefully painted on with "brushes" made from the yucca plant.