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Bowl https://collections.artsmia.org/art/20951/
bowl; polished blackware; reduction-fired pottery, in smoothed coil construction
October 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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The form is an aryballos, a narrow-necked Inka jar type that arrived with the conquerors. Chimu potters kept their old techniques and switched to the new shapes. Blackware body, Inka silhouette.
October 25, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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Blackware Plate https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9091/
Gift of Nathan Cummings
October 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Feline, Likely a Puma https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91671/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
October 17, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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signed Nicolas Silveira mid 20th c blackware pot

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October 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Blackware Vessel with Relief Depicting a Scene of Human Sacrifice https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91655/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
September 21, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Mold-Made Blackware Pendant with Rounded Headdress https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86145/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
August 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Explore the ancient art of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery. 🏺🔥 Watch how the descendants of matriarch Margaret Tafoya use instinct, the elements, and traditional ground firing to transform earth into stunning blackware masterpieces in our latest blog post.

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Forged in Earth and Fire: The Ancestral Art of Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery
Experience the ancient art of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery. Watch how the descendants of matriarch Margaret Tafoya use instinct, the elements, and traditional ground firing techniques to transform earth...
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August 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Blackware ceramic water container / Chavin culture, ca. 400-100 BC
August 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Santa Fe, NM – Congratulations to Sergio Lugo (Santa Clara Pueblo) for winning Santa Fe Indian Market Best of Show. Check out his work and all of the classification winners!

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Santa Fe Indian Market 2026 Winners - First American Art Magazine
Santa Fe, NM – A blackware pot that defies gravity takes the coveted Best of Show at SWAIA's 2026 Santa Fe Indian Market.
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August 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Blackware pottery ritual pot with a central ridged column, three strap handles, and three spouts, decorated with applied human and animal figures. Taken by Keith Nicklin from Ishiagu and housed at the British Museum. #pottery #ishiagu
February 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Blackware pottery vessel used for palm wine, featuring an incised linear design on the upper part, applied figures, and three pot “spouts,” made by the Igbo and found/acquired in Ishiago (modern-day Ishiagu), taken by Keith Nicklin and housed at the British Museum.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Etruscan #TombTuesday (Necropolis of San Germano) on the grounds of a winery (Rocca di Frassinello). My favorite kind of two-for-one special! #archaeology #toscana 🏺
Rows of grapevines stretch across golden-brown hills at Rocca di Frassinello in Maremma, Tuscany. The vineyard lies under a wide blue sky, with scattered olive trees and wooded hills rising in the distance. Bronze vessel with tall, curved handles ending in stylized human hands, displayed in a glass case at the Rocca di Frassinello Etruscan Museum. The bowl rests on a pedestal base, surrounded by smaller blackware cups. A dramatic, amphitheater-style wine barrel room at Rocca di Frassinello, with rows of oak barrels stacked in symmetrical tiers under soft lighting. Instructional panel showing both an aerial photograph and detailed plan of Tomb 9 at the Etruscan Necropolis of San Germano, including a numbered list describing funerary artifacts like bronze razors, alabaster urns, bucchero oil flasks, and decorative appliqués such as crouching lions.
June 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Feline Sitting on the Back of a Bird https://www.artic.edu/artworks/96720/
Gift of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf
August 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Blackware Cup with Abstract Faces Carved in Panels https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9101/
Gift of Nathan Cummings
August 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Gourd-Shaped Blackware Jar with Modeled Monkey Handle https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86135/
Buckingham Fund
July 30, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Blackware Jar with Single Spout https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9058/
Gift of Nathan Cummings
July 27, 2026 at 9:46 AM
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Blackware Spouted Vessel in the Form of a Composite Face, Animals, and Fish https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8783/
Gift of Nathan Cummings
July 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Storage Jar https://www.artic.edu/artworks/190994/
Toward the end of the 19th century, a strong artistic renewal took place among the Pueblos as the construction of the Santa Fe Railroad and increasing travel from the East Coast created additional markets. However, these new, locally developed pottery styles clearly stemmed from earlier traditions. In Santa Clara Pueblo around 1900, Sara Fina Tafoya initiated a style of handsome burnished blackware vessels with a hallmark “bearpaw” imprint, a classic form that continues today. Edward Johnson, Mrs. Leonard S. Florsheim, Grant J. Pick Purchase, Henry Horner Straus Memorial, and African and Amerindian Curator's Discretionary funds
July 8, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Fragment from a Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Crested Bird Head https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91718/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
July 5, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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Blackware Vessel in the Form of Two Figures Seated on Reed Boat, Parts Missing https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91667/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
July 2, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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Covered Vessel with the Principal Bird and Peccary Heads https://www.artic.edu/artworks/195461/
This beautifully modeled and incised blackware vessel was likely was once the personal possession of a Maya king, who may have used it to serve food at royal feasts or who may have presented it as a gift to a visiting lord as a sign of alliance. Its shape—a lidded dish supported by four legs—was a form frequently produced during the Early Classic period [A.D. 250/450]. These ceramics often display a consistent set of motifs, with birds on their domed lids and inverted peccary (wild pig) heads serving as supports. The artist who created this piece integrated the two-dimensional surface of the lid with its three-dimensional handle by connecting the bird’s spread wings, lightly incised into the surface, with its head, sculpted in the round. The vessel thus captures the essence of an aquatic bird floating on the surface of the water with its prey—a small fish—caught in its open beak.Water birds and peccaries inhabited the natural landscape of the ancient Maya who associated them with the structure of the universe and the time of creation. The crest of feathers atop the bird’s head, its outstretched wings, and the bulge at the tip of its beak mark it as a cormorant. The Maya regarded this bird as a liminal being, able to traverse three distinct environments: it flies in the sky, perches on land, and hunts fish by swimming deep under water. This was considered extraordinary, signifying the capacity to commune with supernatural beings that inhabit all three layers of the cosmos—a power that Maya kings also claimed to posses. The cormorant bore many additional meanings with which these rulers wished to link themselves—for example, its association with watery realms alludes to fertility and agricultural abundance, which kings needed to ensure so that their community would survive. Water also evoked the distant mythological past, a time before the creation of the present universe when, according to Maya belief, everything was enveloped in a vast sea. The peccaries furthered these cosmic associations as they are thought to have represented the four pillars that support the corners of the world. In addition, some Maya identified clusters of stars in the constellation Gemini as peccaries. This constellation is located in the region of the night sky where the seminal event of Maya creation—the resurrection of the maize god—was believed to have occurred.All of these formal and iconographic features demonstrate that as a vessel made for a ruler and used in his court, this work was adorned with imagery designed to express the supernatural sources of his royal authority. In their art programs, Maya kings often associated themselves with the cosmos and the time f creation, thereby affirming that their right to rule was inherent in the world and was established at the beginning of time.— Notable Acquisitions.2009, pg. 6. Joanne M. and Clarence E. Spanjer and African and Amerindian Curator's Discretionary funds; O. Renard Goltra and National Docent Symposium endowments; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund; David Soltker and Irving Dobkin endowments
June 28, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Feline, Likely a Puma https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91671/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
June 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Fragment from a Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Puma Head https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91721/
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment
May 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM