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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 108357, member: 45&quot;]I almost hate to mention this, but horse hair pottery isn&#039;t Native American Indian.&nbsp; True, it is now made by many Indian potters, but it was actually an outgrowth of the American raku movement in the 1960s among studio potters.&nbsp; It was widely documented in the <u>Ceramics Monthly Magazine</u>.&nbsp; Studio potters from Maine to California were making horse hair pottery long before Native American Indians widely started producing it around the 1990s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even so, some potters have resorted to including a little paper with their pottery, with a fabricated story of it being invented by an Acoma (or a Santo Domingo, or a Navajo, etc.) woman.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It was studio potter Paul Soldner who was responsible for American raku and horse hair pottery.&nbsp; It did not exist prior to that in any Native American culture.</p><p><br /></p><p>The majority of horse hair pots found on the secondary market are actually studio pottery, made by non-Indian potters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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