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: Greenware or 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.