Mexican Pottery Research Paper

Pre-Columbian art has many artifact, but one huge thing stood out to me. It was the stela. It a huge stone with details from all around. They were at least 10 feet long. One stela (Guatemala, Piedras Negras Maya, AD 758 Limestone) It had a craving of a ruler middle with his servant beneath him. “This monument celebrates the accession/seating of Ruler 5 of Piedras Negras” (Description). It was very detailed. Other minor thing that stood out were textiles, jewelry, mask, stone figure. One can conclude that pre columdian are very know for their stone

Pottery can not only tell us about the past, but it can also tell us about people’s beliefs and what people did in the past. Pottery was used for many purposes. It was made in many different shapes and sizes. Some pieces of pottery had unique pictures and designs on them. The pictures and designs expressed different types of things that went on in the daily lives of ancient Greeks. Music and entertainment, religious beliefs, death and burial traditions are a few aspects of Greek life that are pictured on many different types of ancient Greek pottery.

Ceramic making is still a popular tradition today in the Americas, especially on Native Indian Reservations, like in Western, North Carolina. The use of ceramics, however, is quite different than the way it was used by the natives during the Middle Woodland Period. Today, pottery is mainly made for decoration or art purposes by modern day Americans, but according to Wallis (2011), about 3,000 years ago the use of pottery became a very common use and practiced tradition among the native people who lived during that time period. The Swift Creek culture and the Cherokee Indians had very similar methods in formulating ceramics. The archaeological findings of these artifacts states that one group had been more advanced designs on their vessels. This reason is most likely because of the materials that one group was able to access in their area that the other group did not have available. One group was also more traditional and spiritual in making their vessels, which caused them to create more complex designs and methods while designing their ceramics (Block 2005). By looking at the similarities of both groups pottery styles, archaeologists were able to determine the minor but very distinctive differences, that one group processed in their art, than the other. By comparing each group’s ceramics by looking at

The great Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlán was overpowered and taken by Hernán Cortés. When the empire fell, many Aztecs were infected with a disease from Europe, smallpox. It was their first exposure to the disease and they had no immunity. Over a course of months, the culture and civilization of the fallen empire have changed.Numerous people wonder about the Aztecs who have survived and still remain in Tenochtitlán. On a trip to the city, we stopped an Aztec resident on the street to answer a few questions. The resident requested to remain anonymous for safety reasons.

                The Aztec of Central Mexico built a tributary empire covering most of central Mexico. Build huge monuments for their gods, showing their creativity and art influenced by their religion and gods.

This jar have yei’ii design and is at 8 ¾ tall and 8” wide at the handle. This is one of the Faye Tso’s pottery that have won the Second Prize in 1993 during the Museum of Northern Arizona Navajo Artiests Exhibition. This pieces and with other large pieces of pottery like the vase with yei’iis and human figure and the water jar with horned toads. These clay sculpture were made by Myra Tso, Faye’s daughter and it was to honor her grandfather, who sang and prayed for her. The design of horned toads on the pottery are very special because the toads was use in a ritual for praying. All ritual and ceremonies are essential parts of the Navajo way as well as sand painting art that was inspired by those that created ceremony. The dust from gold, diamonds,

The Lenca tribe is the largest indigenous group still in Honduras with about a population of 100,000. Much of their culture has been lost, such as their language. But not everything has been lost and something that still thrives today is their pottery. This has survived time by generations of mothers passing down this artistry to their daughters. Although, today the pottery still maintains Lenca tradition, they also incorporate modern style. These vases, bowls, and pots are decorated with geometric designs and the use of spotting . Spotting traditionally is meant to represent the spots on the moon. The usual color combinations are black and white, dark orange and black, or coffee brown and black. The women are able to stay home and make pottery

A molcajete (mo̞lkaˈxe̞te̞ or mol-cah-hay’-tay; Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl molcaxitl)[needs IPA] is a stone tool, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle,[1] similar to the South American batan, used for grinding various food product. The molcajete was used by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures, including the Aztec and Maya, stretching back several thousand years. Traditionally carved out of a single block of vesicular basalt, molcajetes are typically round in shape and supported by three short legs. They are frequently decorated with the carved head of an animal on the outside edge of the bowl, giving the molcajete the appearance of a short, stout, three-legged animal. The pig is the most common animal head used for decoration

One of the most well known figures of the twentieth century pottery world is Maria Martinez. Maria Martinez is a Pueblo Indian part of the San Ildefondo tribe. Pueblo pottery from the American Southwest holds a unique place in ceramic art forms of American art. It is full of age-old tradition and culture handed down form family members and potters of the past. The old Pueblo ways of creating it still hold true today and have not been changed or influenced like so many other styles in modern times.

The technology that Mesoamerica was famous for came when humans fist discovered and entered the Americas. They had their tools with them which quickly spread across the land and were often found in the ancient people’s graves. After the tools spread, they began to improve. For example, they were used for agriculture in document 7, the Indians were using tools to plant and harvest corn. Soon, Mesoamerica began to improve even more

Throughout the period of the 1st to 16th century, Mexico experienced the emergence and rise of powerful civilizations such as the Teotihuacan, Toltec and ultimately, the greatest empire, Aztec. Many cultural and economic practices of these Mexican civilizations were borrowed from the prior civilization, adapted, and then further developed upon and while many aspects of these practices stayed the same through this time, significant changes occurred as well.

The early Basketmakers are known for their yucca-leaf woven baskets. These baskets were so tightly woven that water was stored in them regularly. They used yucca leaves for medicinal purposes and made sandals out of the yucca leaves as well. They lived in caves and on rock ledges, but they soon began building pithouses to store food. They made their tools and hunting gear out of bones and stones (Ferguson, 1996).

Like most societies there are similarities and differences in religion and art; I will be discussing about three different regions. The three regions are The Eskimos, Olmec, and West Mexico. The Eskimos are well known for commonly using walrus ivory to make things out of mainly because wood is scarce at their location. The Olmec are known for creating mounds out of soil and adorned with colored clays to copy the mountains and volcanoes. Then we know have the West Mexico, which has a rich tradition of all sorts of clay sculptures that are commonly found by tombs.

This is a clay gourd that taken the shaped like a jug and have cinnamon color appearance and stand at 13 ¾ x 8 inches. This pottery were part of the Tonaltec pieces that have been a high recognition for a long time for the traveler and historians in the seventeenth century. The Tonaltec pottery is generally known in Mexico as “Guadalajara earthenware” which taken after a major city name nearest were it make. The Tonaltec pottery are make distinction between earthenware of water and earthenware of fire based on the differences in function and decoration the artist tried to make. The Tonaltec pottery is make of the burnished or greased clay and was fire once then is bathed in glaze and leave to be fire twice before it finish. The purpose of this

In the Continent of Cultures, it was stated how and why the first people reach to the Mesoamerica. Learning about the different people from Olmec to the Aztecs in the (Cultures of Ancient Mexico) on page four of the text. Each group had their significant of their tribe. In example the Olmec build big statues that weight a ton, so that is saying they were great at architectural work. The Maya was great at reading the sky, so they derived a calendar that new America took for our calendar. The Aztec was powerful people and great at trading. (In The Plenty of the Pacific Northwest) it states that this environment is very rich in natural things. They were able to use things from nature to make whatever they need such as red alder to carved bowls