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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 3945400, member: 45&quot;]No, it isn&#039;t Hopi, or Native American.&nbsp; It&#039;s Mexican, from the village of Mata Ortiz.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When the pottery first came on the market in the 1980s, many of the potters copied pre-historic pottery from the nearby ruins of Paquime, which was a Casas Grandes culture that disappeared in the 1400s.&nbsp; Many of their pieces were such good copies that they ended up in museum collections, identified as authentic Casas Grandes pottery.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would suspect that is what this is.&nbsp; It&#039;s definitely not Hopi or Native American, and classic Casas Grandes &quot;style,&quot; but unlikely that it&#039;s older than the 1980s, and most likely made by Mexican potters, not Native American.&nbsp; None of the potters at Mata Ortiz claim any tribal affiliation, and today most make what the Mexican government classifies as contemporary Mexican Art Pottery.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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