Featured Native American Pottery Acoma?

Picked up a nice pot. Stands 4" tall. Unmarked on base. Maybe this is Acoma?

 

Not Acoma. Possibly Santo Domingo. With so much wear on the bottom, it might have been marked in the beginning.
@Taupou?

 

Beautiful, kraft.

That is what I thought. It reminds me of a small Santo Domingo pot I have.

 

It appears to be Jemez, from Jemez Pueblo, north of Albuquerque. It probably dates to the 1960s, or newer, since it appears to be decorated with acrylic paint, which tends to chip over time. Acrylics became available to publo potters in the 1960s, along with a "revival" of interest in pottery at Jemez. Jemez potters for awhile tended to copy design patterns from other pueblos, or incorporate elements of them in their pottery, since they had pretty much lost any traditional styles of their own.

I don't think the abrasion on the bottom is natural, or due to age. It looks more like it was deliberately done, perhaps to remove a signature, or other marking, based on the tiny black lines that remain.

 

Taupou, you got me checking another pot I have, and yes, that one is from Jemez. It is signed P Tosa, at least I think it is a P. I think I bought it in the late 70s. Does the name ring any bells?

 

The bold, black designs do have a similarity to Santo Domingo (now Kewa) pottery, but Kewa tends to feature stylized flower and leaf patterns, and rarely, if ever, the fine-line hatching. That's why this bowl looks like a combination of borrowed patterns, and could be mistaken for Acoma or Kewa, depending on what part of the pot you're looking at, which, along with the clay body color itself, points to Jemez.

Kewa clay fires tends to fire red, Acoma is white. The base color here is Jemez cream or buff.

 

There are three Jemez potters that could have possibly made your pot: Persingula Tosa, Phyllis Tosa, and another potter who only signed "P. Tosa." All were working in the 1970s.

 

Thanks, Taupou.

 

Thanks 2many, Any and Taupou