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| | Authentic Southwestern Anasazi (ancestral Puebloan)
replica pottery hand-made in Colorado. Based entirely on the "prehistoric
model" and archaeological references, each piece is created using only prehistorically available materials, tools, and
technologies. Work is done without the benefits of metal, modern equipment, commercial
materials or animal fuels.
Wood's Authentic Prehistoric Pottery Technology
Model 
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Materials: All hand-gathered clays and materials. |
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Tools: Made of gourd, stone, bone, leather, wood and yucca. |
|  Grinding
Clay: with Mano and Metate. |
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Process: Hand-built using coil, pinch and scrape method. |
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Burnish:
vessel surface for high luster before painting. |
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Organic Paint: Rocky Mountain Bee Plant
(Cleome Serrulata) |
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Painting: Hand painted with organic paint using a yucca
fiber brush. |
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Firing: Sandstone lined trench kiln firing using
wood fuel. |
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Unearthing: the trench Kiln |
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Fired Pottery: in the trench kiln |
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Firing: Sandstone lined trench kiln firing using
wood fuel. 
