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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 2687706, member: 45&quot;]I&#039;ve never seen a Santa Clara pot with horizontal rings, either.&nbsp; &quot;Rings&quot; are usually associated with pottery thrown on a potter&#039;s wheel, which Native Americans never traditionally used.&nbsp; However, the rings on a wheel-thrown pot are actually a long &quot;coiling spiral&quot; from the bottom of the pot up, not a stack of coils.&nbsp; No way to tell from a photo which this is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, however, unless you know who the potter was, and their tribal affiliation (if any) or unless the pot was made before 1935 and is of a traditional style associated with a particular tribe...it can&#039;t be offered for sale as Native American or as from any particular tribe.&nbsp; That&#039;s according to federal law, under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to know, but I&#039;m afraid there isn&#039;t going to be a definitive answer here.&nbsp; One should also remember, that any competent potter, anywhere in the world, can duplicate the look of a Santa Clara pot.&nbsp; It&#039;s basically a burnished pot that has been fired in a reduction atmosphere in an outdoor pit firing or bonfire.&nbsp; Black pottery like this is found in North, Central, and South America, as well as in Africa, China, eastern Europe and probably other places as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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