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Joshua Madalena grinding temper for clay.
like I solved a whole puzzle that had been missing for 300 years. “Things happen,” he says, “and if some- thing is meant to be, if it’s meant to happen then in some way or some form you’re given a gift by the spirits. “You had your utilitarian wares, but the
black-on-white pottery was designed with a sacred animal or our sacred mountains, val- leys and canyons – our sacred places of wor- ship. So the black-on-white pottery actually tells a story. It was the individual potter’s way of interpreting their times and the activities going on in their life,” says Madalena. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the
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Spanish reconquest of the Southwest, Jemez black-on-white pottery was one of the casual- ties of Spanish oppression. Spain tried to sup- press the traditional way of life of American Indians and especially the people in the Jemez region. They targeted the Native language and traditional religion, so it was taken un- derground. The language was spoken and the religious practices were performed in secret. “For me to say that this pottery was au-
thentic, my whole belief was that it was bring- ing back a culture that was once oppressed by another religion. This pottery is an identity for our people, for our culture and our sur- vival,” says Madalena.
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