I was unclear on that point myself. When I did my experiment I simply took some mica that I found (about .25c size) and crushed it up into smaller pieces. Some were 5-10mm across, and these are what flaked off. If you crushed it into the tiny bits that appear to be natural inclusions it would have worked fine probably. I'm curious: what percentage of the paste is made up by mica?
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Subject: Re: Mica Temper?
So Jeffrey, Did the various New Mexico people track down natural clays with
mica or add it as temper?
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc
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By the way, there is also a controversy among New Mexican archaeologists
as to whether the region's Hispanic occupants picked up micaceous pottery
manufacture. The best evidence, in my opinion, says "no" and that pottery
manufacture in Hispanic communities was the activity of Indians residing in
those communities, primarily Apaches and Navajos, but that opinion is not
universally held.
Also, as regards Carl's note about micaceous pots, my grandmother always
said -- and I have heard many viejos nortenos say -- that frijoles (beans)
are best cooked in micaceous pots.
Jeff
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
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Office of Archaeological Studies, Museum of New Mexico
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Subject: Mica Temper?
Forwarded from the Ceramics-L list; I thought perhaps someone here might
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Subject: Mica Temper
From: "Christian Gates" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, July 1, 2009 9:26 am
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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
Archaeo
logist, PhD
Ethnoscop inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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