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JEDDITO WARES
JEDDITO BLACK-ON-YELLOW
TYPE: Jeddito Black-on-Yellow
DATE: A.D. 1325 to 1600 (Dittert Jr., and Plog, 1980;109)
COMMON DESIGNS: Early styles are generally geometric while later examples become more free and open, commonly with curvilinear motifs. Complicated geometric styles occur also.
PAINT COLOR: Usually black but can be reddish or brown if applied thin. There are also glaze black examples that are somewhat rare.
COMMON BACKGROUND COLOR(S): Orangeish yellow to straw yellow, to ivory-yellow.
TEMPER: Many painted Jeddito Wares appear not to have any temper added, even under high magnification. Wade and McChesney state: "However, ethnographic accounts of ancient manufacturing techniques collected by Thomas Keam in the 1880s and 1890s suggest that Sikyatki and San Bernardo Polychromes may, in fact, be tempered (Stephen n.d., quoted in Wade and McChesney 1980, pg 96). Nineteeth-century informants indicated that potters low-fired plaques of white clay, then ground them to the consistency of flour. This was added to the unfired white clay paste used to form a vessel. Temper this fine would be hard to detect visually, would produce a stronger pot through its high-quality distribution within the vessel, and would still allow for a smoother polishing and painting surface than either conventional sand or sherd tempering." (Wade and McChesney, 1981;20). Occasionally some painted Jeddito Wares may have large rounded quartz grains visible on the surface and throughout the paste, the same can be said for large red angular fragments, although vessels that show visible temper are somewhat rare.
KEY DIFFERENCES: Yellow background color, Jeddito decorated vessels are usually highly polished to a near glass smooth texture, and many appear not to have temper in the paste.
COMMENTS: Background colors on non-slipped Jeddito Wares are mainly due to firing temperature and/or the amount of oxygen the vessels receive during the firing process. This is why it is common to see hues or "fire clouds" of different shades of colors on a vessel. See vessel #1Y under Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Variants.
1N Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
2N Jeddito Black-on-Yellow bowl with two stylized birds painted in the bottom.
3N Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Mug
4N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Dog Head Effigy Ladle
5N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
6N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
7N Anasazi Large Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Olla
8N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Ladle
Approximate Dimensions: 7 1/2" by 4" by 1 7/8"
9N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
10N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
11N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
Approximate Dimensions: 8 3/8 " by 3 1/2 "
Close-up of vessel #11N
12N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Ladle with Effigy Handle
13N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Ladle
14Y Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Ladle with a Katsina figure or alien painted
in thick glaze black paint that didn't quite get hot enough during the firing to glaze or get shiny.
Approximate Dimensions: 8 1/4" by 3 7/8" by 2"
15Y Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl with a stylized Katsina face painted in the bottom.
Approximate Dimensions: 6 1/2" by 2 3/4"
16Y Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl with an ivory-yellow background color.
Approximate Dimensions: 9" by 3 3/4"
17Y Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Square Shaped Vessel with a black painted rim.
Approximate Dimensions: 3 3/4" by1 3/4"
18N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl.
Approximate Dimensions: 8" by 3 3/4"
19N Anasazi Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Jar.
Approximate Dimensions: 4 1/2" by 3 3/4"
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