Unknown Jemez Potter

The Spanish brought pottery production at Jemez Pueblo to a crashing halt in the late 1690s. It never recovered. The Jemez switched to trading food for pottery with Zia Pueblo. After that there was virtually no pottery made at Jemez until the twentieth century. There has been almost no intact Jemez pottery recovered that was made before the twentieth century.

There was a pottery revival begun at Jemez in the 1930s but after maybe a decade, it fizzled out. The revival was brought back to life again in the 1950s and has sustained itself since. That’s also been the timespan of most signatures in most pueblos.