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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 1619721, member: 45"]Forgot to add that based on the size and forms themselves, all three were made for the tourist market. </p><p><br /></p><p>Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. If it hadn't been for the tourist market in the southwest (which began in earnest in the 1890s, when the railroad reached the area), many of the traditional arts, and pottery especially, might have been lost. </p><p><br /></p><p>Small forms were easy for tourists to pack back home, and items like ashtrays, salt and pepper shakers, candlesticks plus other items adapted from Victorian items the tourists were familiar with, were readily produced by the potters...even though they weren't part of their own traditions and culture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 1619721, member: 45"]Forgot to add that based on the size and forms themselves, all three were made for the tourist market. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. If it hadn't been for the tourist market in the southwest (which began in earnest in the 1890s, when the railroad reached the area), many of the traditional arts, and pottery especially, might have been lost. Small forms were easy for tourists to pack back home, and items like ashtrays, salt and pepper shakers, candlesticks plus other items adapted from Victorian items the tourists were familiar with, were readily produced by the potters...even though they weren't part of their own traditions and culture.[/QUOTE]
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