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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 9757576, member: 45&quot;]Mike Mac Dnald:&nbsp;&nbsp; It appears you are confusing the Hopi tribe with the Navajo. The Hopi are a puebloan tribe, that has been in the Southwest since at least 500 B.C., believed to have migrated there from the Mexico area.&nbsp; The Navajo are a totally unrelated Athabascan tribe, who migrated to the Southwest, from Canada, around the 1600s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pot in question doesn&#039;t remotely resemble traditional Hopi pottery.&nbsp; It does, however, look like it could be Navajo, who traditionally made a brown, pinon pine pitch coating, on their pots.&nbsp; The best way to tell, is to rub the bottom with your thumb, and see if, when warmed, it smells of pinon pine.&nbsp; The Navajo are the only tribe that used this particular coating on their pottery, which was applied as the hot pots were taken out of the firing.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I think the listing has taken an unnecessary spin into</p><p>the &quot;spider theory.&quot;&nbsp; It probably is just a decoration, possibly a flower.&nbsp; The main thing is to look at the clay, which is correct for a traditional Navajo piece, and determine whether or not that is a pitch coating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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