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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 330728, member: 45&quot;]Just an example of how some of the &quot;history&quot; about horsehair pottery found on the internet was evidently written by someone who knew nothing about pottery, or Native Americans: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://desertroseceramics.com/home/history-horsehair-pottery/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://desertroseceramics.com/home/history-horsehair-pottery/" rel="nofollow">http://desertroseceramics.com/home/history-horsehair-pottery/</a></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;...horsehair pottery was first discovered by the Navajo. One day, a Pueblo potter woman went to remove her pottery from the fire pit. As she did, some of her long hair caught in the breeze and accidentally touched the hot vessel. Her hair burnt and created a black trail of smoke on the piece...&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The writer evidently didn&#039;t know that the Navajo are not &quot;Pueblo&quot; people, and are totally unrelated to any puebloan tribes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or that potters with long hair always tie it back when firing, to prevent unexpected tragedies.&nbsp; Which would certainly have happened if her hair had hit a pot just taken from the fire.&nbsp; If it was hot enough to burn the pattern permanently into the pot, her whole head of hair would have burst into flame, and that would have been the end of the story.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s also why horsehair, which is a lot thicker than human hair, is used.&nbsp; It&#039;s thick enough to leave a pattern, and you can safely remove it from the horse before placing it on the pot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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