Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico by Jun U. Sunseri

Author:Jun U. Sunseri [Sunseri, Jun U.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: SOC002010 Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, SOC021000 Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
ISBN: 978-1-4962-0499-8
Publisher: Nebraska
Published: 2018-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 35. Plain ware bowl number of identified specimens (lower solid bars), minimum, maximum, and average thicknesses (diamonds with variation) by locus and type.

Although vessel walls were likely continuously evaluated for their thickness (Blair and Blair 1986:97) during the construction sequence, one of the last things that occurred in the sequence of building operations before surface treatments like burnishing were added was shaping of the distal edge of vessels at the lip (fig. 36). As this is not as overtly characteristic of a vessel as its overall form or decoration (Shepard 1956:246), this allows for some measure of disengagement from the constraints of function and the dictates of consumer choice to which potters were responding. Rather, such features are more of a stylistic manifestation of the community of practice from which a potter learned her trade, a muscle memory of appropriate shape enacted in the last moments before the clay is left to dry to leather-hard. How potters did this probably did not affect the mechanical and technical suitability of a vessel. Such behavioral traces are idiosyncratic, something that a potter learned to do a certain way as part of a shared learning community. Lip forming can be described as a moment in which:

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