1300 AD
Height 10 1/2"
Provenance: Fred Lau, San Francisco, CA
Jeddito Yellow Ware is a type of pottery that was made exclusively at the Hopi Mesas in northern Arizona and widely traded throughout the Southwest.
Probably no ware of Pueblo pottery is admired as much as Jeddito Yellow Ware. Not only are vessels of this ware conspicuous for beauty of form and for elaborate designs, but probably are admired as much for the clear, bright yellow tones of the vessel surface. Hargrave (1935, in Colton 1956) has suggested that the vessels of gold that lured the early Spanish explorers into the Southwest easily could have been pottery vessels of Jeddito Yellow Ware, as to natives who did not refine metals, “gold” might refer to color.
The ware developed late. Its appearance does not mark a great change or special advancement in techniques since early examples of this ware do not differ greatly in form or finish from vessels made long before. The same materials used in manufacturing vessels of Awatovi Yellow and Jeddito Yellow wares were used in vessels of the earlier orange, gray, and white wares of the same region. Where vessels once were white or orange, later they were shades of yellow. The chief ceramic change was in the black paints; a shift from manganese and carbon to iron and carbon.
Not Found on Federal or State Land.
1300 AD
Height 10 1/2"
Provenance: Fred Lau, San Francisco, CA
Jeddito Yellow Ware is a type of pottery that was made exclusively at the Hopi Mesas in northern Arizona and widely traded throughout the Southwest.
Probably no ware of Pueblo pottery is admired as much as Jeddito Yellow Ware. Not only are vessels of this ware conspicuous for beauty of form and for elaborate designs, but probably are admired as much for the clear, bright yellow tones of the vessel surface. Hargrave (1935, in Colton 1956) has suggested that the vessels of gold that lured the early Spanish explorers into the Southwest easily could have been pottery vessels of Jeddito Yellow Ware, as to natives who did not refine metals, “gold” might refer to color.
The ware developed late. Its appearance does not mark a great change or special advancement in techniques since early examples of this ware do not differ greatly in form or finish from vessels made long before. The same materials used in manufacturing vessels of Awatovi Yellow and Jeddito Yellow wares were used in vessels of the earlier orange, gray, and white wares of the same region. Where vessels once were white or orange, later they were shades of yellow. The chief ceramic change was in the black paints; a shift from manganese and carbon to iron and carbon.
Not Found on Federal or State Land.
