This book, a must for collectors and historians, is the first to explore the evidence of a Hispanic pottery tradition in northern New Mexico. Previously, scholars believed that all New Mexican utilitarian pottery was made by Native Americans.

This book, a must for collectors and historians, is the first to explore the evidence of a Hispanic pottery tradition in northern New Mexico. Previously, scholars believed that all New Mexican utilitarian pottery was made by Native Americans.

Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous Mesoamerican world after the Spanish conquest.

"This catalog interprets a large and important public collection of historic New Mexioco Pueblo pottery through the study of slipped or slipped and painted wares from Pueblos still occupied"--Preface, page 9.

Museums display Pueblo pottery, collectors prize it, scholars study it, and, perhaps most importantly, the Pueblo potters themselves research it.