68.43.118, Kotyiti Glaze-on-red cup, 13 centimeters (5 inches)
in diameter
Found at San Gabriel de Yunque (A.D.
1598–1610)
UNM field school collection
Photograph by B. Bernard
Once the Spanish colonized New Mexico, Pueblo potters began making some of their vessels in shapes preferred by the immigrant population. This example shows one of those shapes: a wide, shallow handled cup. Native pottery made to suit Spanish tastes, but using traditional materials and methods, is known as Colono Ware. The next photo shows a top view of the same cup.
68.43.118, Kotyiti Glaze-on-red cup, second view
Photograph by B. Bernard
Kotyiti Glaze-on-red is usually dated to A.D. 1625–1700, but this example from San Gabriel indicatess that modification of the native pottery tradition began a generation earlier, when the Spanish first colonized New Mexico.
The final photo shows a second native-made handled cup from San Gabriel. The cross on this second cup would have appealed to its Spanish users.
68.43.28, Kotyiti Glaze-on-red cup, heavily restored; 14 centimeters
(5 ½ inches) in diameter
Found at San Gabriel de Yunque (A.D.
1598–1610)
UNM field school collection
Photograph by B. Bernard
Help us build the content of this page! Please contact us about information you'd like to see, information you have, and anything else via the User Feedback link.
To return to the thumbnail on the San Gabriel page, please click here. To return to the thumbnail on the Pottery page, please click here.
All content copyright © Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. High-resolution versions of photographs may be ordered from the Maxwell Museum's photo archives. Please make note of the catalogue numbers. For more information please visit the photo archives web page
Page last revised on March 5, 2019. Please report problems to toh@unm.edu