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| 016 Santo Domingo Pueblo, c. 1920 |
 The Pueblo of Santo Domingo is situated close to the Rio Grande, between the modern cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Since the middle 1700's the decorations on their pottery have consisted of starkly bold geometric figures painted with a black pigment made from the boiled juice of the Rocky Mountain bee plant. The watery light-brown juice soaks into the slip, and chars to a dense, permanent black color when the vessel is hardened in a fire. Shortly after 1900, the formal and static decorative style began to soften into more flowing patterns that incorporate foliage with stems, leaves, and flowers like those developed earlier at the villages of Acoma, Laguna, and Zia. Red pigments, made from fine red clay, had previously been allowed at Santo Domingo only as an encircling band on the unslipped base, just below the design area. But with the new freedom for design structure also came the use of red in the designs themselves, as in parts of the flowers and leaves of this fine example.
Francis Harlow - Los Alamos |
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