2 Native American Style Pottery Bowls

I suspect something recent?

 

Look up Pamunkey Pottery, from the Pamunkey tribe, in Virginia.

Although the Pamunkey had made a traditional type of pottery, this "style" was introduced in the 1930s as a state-sponsored program, that provided a Pottery School, teachers, and modern techniques of pottery, in an attempt to provide an additional source of income for the tribe.

Kilns, glazes, molds, and other non-traditional methods and design patterns were used to produce pottery souvenirs for the market place. Copies of southwestern-style "pictographs" were introduced, in an attempt to re-create "Indian" looking items.

It is claimed that some of the students later turned to more "traditional" pottery production, but from what I have ever encountered, this is the modern Pamunkey "style" that resulted from the program, and is still being produced today.

 

Thanks a lot for the info.

 

I know, digging up a string a month++ old is heresy. But, ...
I bought a 1990s version at the reservation and got a nice photocopied piece of paper with it explaining the meaning of the pictographs. It goes like this (starts with the # [long before Twitter] and end with what looks like a bowl of hot soup (half circle with upward lines), each of the 12 pictographs being on a different line below:

"on a given date
which is the flying of the geese
the Indians
go on trail
to meet
the white men
and with the same through [thought] in mind
to agree
to smoke the pipe of peach
and present treaty furs
to meet terms of the treaty
and wish white man good luck."

"Each year at Thanksgiving time, the members of the Pamunky Indian Tribe journey to Richmond to present certain wild game to the Governor of Virginia in accordance with the terms of the treaty of 1646, between the Indians and the representatives of the King of England. This is the story of the treaty."

All historically true. Whether the pictographs were a good marketing ploy, don't know.

 

Nice idea. Probably smells pretty good.

 

Was wondering just what they were smoking...guess "the pipe of peach" explains a lot.

 

lol. Goes well with the thanksgiving turkey.

Yes, correction: Not Peach. Pipe of Piece. it was modular I hear.