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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 3916, member: 45&quot;]I&#039;ve seen a lot of these little Navajo salt spoons, with and without a matching silver salt dish.&nbsp; In this case, though, if this is really a traditional burnished black pottery bowl, it looks more like a marriage...and an inter-tribal one at that.&nbsp; Someone probably found the perfect size pueblo pottery bowl that the Navajo salt spoon would fit in.&nbsp;&nbsp; The main pueblo tribes that make burnished black pottery are San Ildefonso and Santa Clara, and sometimes Santo Domingo and San Juan...all totally unrelated to the Navajo.</p><p><br /></p><p>If, however, the bowl is <u>glazed</u>, rather than burnished, (which I can&#039;t determine from the photo) it very likely is a Navajo piece, made from commercial black clay, and fired in a kiln...made to <u>look like</u> a traditional black, burnished, pueblo pot.&nbsp; It would still be unlikely that the two were made to be together, though, since the Navajo only very recently started making the glazed and kiln-fired black pottery.&nbsp;&nbsp; (That is, unless the spoon is recent, as well.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can feel a difference in thickness between where the shiny surface meets the matte surface, it would indicate that this has had a glaze applied.&nbsp; &nbsp; Between a burnished area and a matte area, there would only be a difference in texture.&nbsp; If it&#039;s glazed, the shiny area will feel raised a bit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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