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Message:: [QUOTE="Taupou, post: 4400677, member: 45"]I have no idea who "Margie" is/was, but I can tell you that the pot is a piece of American raku (also called post-firing reduction), a firing technique which was invented by American studio potter Paul Soldner in 1960.  By the late 1960s/early 1970s, workshops, classes, and individual potters were making raku pottery all over the world.  By the time the internet became a popular source of "information," stories were circulated about it being a traditional pottery done by various tribes.  But it is not.  There was no American raku before 1960.  (There is Japanese Raku, but that is not the same thing at all.) Since nearly everyone who has ever taken a pottery class since 1970 has probably at one time done a raku firing, this could have been made by any "Margie" who was inspired by, or influenced, by the famous petroglyph.  The way she signed it is typical of a hobby or class work.  It's a carefully done copy of the She-Who-Watches image, but not Native American Indian, not older than the 1960s, with no cultural tradition.[/QUOTE]