In Pueblo culture, clay pottery represents not only carefully crafted works of art, but also living connections across time. At the Pueblo of Acoma, renowned all over the world for its pottery, some ...

Mitchell adds that a pottery vessel made in traditional ways allows the Acoma Pueblo people to say “I have my piece of the rock. That’s how we identify ourselves, by place and name, that’s our place ...

After the slip in the mold dries, Eric will separate it, revealing the pottery shape. Instead of slip casting, Eric's mother and grandmother created traditional Acoma pottery using a coiling method.