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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 9732302, member: 45&quot;]Despite all the made-up claims on the internet, horsehair pottery is an outgrowth of <i>American raku</i>, or <i>post</i>-<i>firing reduction</i>, a technique credited to American ceramic artist and educator Paul Soldner in the 1960s.&nbsp; It has nothing at all to do with any traditional Native American pottery, was not the result of a Sioux (or Navajo, or puebloan) maiden catching her hair on a pot when taking it from the kiln.&nbsp; That is all the result of stories made up to help sell it, often preceded by &quot;according to legend....&quot;&nbsp; That&#039;s what it is, alright, just a merchandising &quot;legend.&quot;&nbsp; No Indian-made horsehair pottery exists that was made before the 1960s.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a potter myself, who was a student in the &#039;60s (and took classes from Paul Soldner, himself), I can tell you that I saw my first piece of horsehair pottery in the early 1970s, made by a Santa Fe studio potter, and displayed in a Santa Fe gallery window.&nbsp; It may have been made earlier, somewhere else, but that was the first time I remember seeing it for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Native American Indian-made horsehair pottery started appearing in Santa Fe galleries and shops in the 1980s/1990s, so this can&#039;t be older than that. Is that an &#039;85 date, possibly, on the pot?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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