Jeff,
Thanks for the clarification re NM micaceous pottery. My "enthusiastic"
500 year manufacturing range for it was based on a statement in an SAR
Press online blurb about Duane Anderson's "All that Glitters" book (which
I don't have in my library).
Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
520-798-1201 office, 520-798-1966 fax
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: www.oldpueblo.org
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On Thu, July 2, 2009 6:38 am, Boyer, Jeffrey, DCA wrote:
> Allen is correct in that historic Pueblo and Jicarilla Apache Indians have
> and continue to make micaceous pottery. His time-frame is a little
> enthusiastic, though, and confuses late prehistoric micaceous pottery,
> particularly Sapawe Micaceous made by the northern Tewa Pueblos, with the
> historic types. There appears to be a break after Sapawe Micaceous, which
> dates to the late Classic period (ca. AD 1450-maybe 1600). The Jicarilla
> Apache started paddle and anvil micaceous pottery manufacture in the early
> 18th century while living along the eastern flanks of the Sangre de Cristo
> Mountains (the Rockies in New Mexico). They passed it along to the
> Pueblos, primarily Taos and Picuris Pueblos (northern Tiwas), as the
> Apaches were pushed into and over the mountains by Comanches who were
> expanding onto the Southern Plains in the 18th century. Taos and Picuris
> gave up making typical Rio Grande grayware (regional utility ware) and
> went entirely to micaceous pottery, for which they became, and remain,
> famous. Micaceous pottery manufacture also returned to some northern Tewa
> communities, particularly Ohkay Owinge (formerly San Juan Pueblo),
> probably -- in my opinion -- from the Jicarilla Apache as they were pushed
> increasingly westward, but it did not have the prominence that it had
> among the Apache or Taos and Picuris Pueblos.
> There are, in northern New Mexico, both micaceous types and
> micaceous-slipped types. Until his death, Herbert Dick was the dean of
> micaceous pottery, having defined and re-defined types over the course of
> a long career. I suggest that the researchers contact Dean Wilson at
> [log in to unmask] and Sunday Eiselt at [log in to unmask] for
> details, descriptions, and chronologies.
> Buena suerte,
> Jeff
>
> Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
> Project Director
> Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
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> tel: 505.827.6387 fax: 505.827.3904
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> The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. --Ellen
> Parr
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>
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Allen Dart
> Sent: Wed 7/1/2009 10:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Mica Temper?
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>
>
> Jicarilla Apache and Pueblo Indians (especially Taos and Picuris Pueblos)
> of the northern Rio Grande region have been making micaceous pottery for
> at least five hundred years. Many examples have a high golden sheen on the
> surface.
>
> I've heard that a good source on northern New Mexico micaceous pottery is
> "All that Glitters: : The Emergence of Native American Micaceous Art
> Pottery in Northern New Mexico" by Duane Anderson (1999, SAR Press, Santa
> Fe). Anderson is an anthropologist specializing in precontact and historic
> period cultures of the American Southwest and Midwest.
>
> Do a Google web and/or images search for these strings:
>
> new mexico taos micaceous pottery
>
> duane anderson all glitters
>
>
> Allen Dart, RPA, Executive Director
> Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
> PO Box 40577
> Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
> 520-798-1201 office, 520-798-1966 fax
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> URL: www.oldpueblo.org
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> On Wed, July 1, 2009 6:43 am, Megan Springate wrote:
>> Forwarded from the Ceramics-L list; I thought perhaps someone here might
> have some thoughts. Please include Christian Gates on your reply
> ([log in to unmask])
>>
>> --Megan Springate
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>> Subject: Mica Temper
>> From: "Christian Gates" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Wed, July 1, 2009 9:26 am
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> Some colleagues from Montreal have found an assemblage of what seems to
> be
>> Native American ceramics heavily tempered with mica: mica fragments are
> large, numerous and nearly as important as the clay itself. The pottery
> fragments are very hard and they break more like European ceramics than
> Native American ceramics. The context is a French settlement from the
> XVIIth Century.
>>
>> Is anyone familiar with such pottery? Can anyone provide me with similar
> examples of Native American or European ceramics heavily tempered with
> mica?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Christian Gates St-Pierre
>> Archaeologist, PhD
>> Ethnoscop inc.
>> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>>
>>
>> Découvrez les photos les plus intéressantes du jour.
>> http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
>>
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