Making the Gila Football Pot - Hand-Building Pottery
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- Gila Polychrome was made over much of southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico from about 1300 to 1450 AD. These mysterious "football pots" are a rare sight and nobody knows what they were used for. Here I am recreating one of them that is housed at Eastern Arizona College as part of the "Mills Collection". Learn the subtleties of the ancient coil and scrape method of pottery construction by watching and building along with me.
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0:00 What is a football pot?
0:45 How to form the oval base
1:34 Cleaning up the bottom of the pot
1:59 Coil and scrape pottery building technique
2:45 How to make a round neck on an oval jar
3:30 Smoothing the pot walls
3:58 Slipping the pot to add color
4:26 Stone polishing
4:42 Painting designs with organic paint
5:28 Finished pot revealed and compared
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Thanks for watching. If you like these coil pot making videos check out this playlist th-cam.com/play/PLxjk09ZJzrltLqeeNsZq30QWGMLlduFoU.html
You make it look easy Andy, wish it was!
Easier than a ring pot.
Your work is beautiful 👌🏼❤️
Your work is so beautiful 👌🏼❤️
Thank you!
Looks great, Andy!
Hey, thanks!
What a fantastic pot
Thanks, it was a fun project.
I love the shape of this kind of pot! great work
Thanks, it was a bit of a challenge because I don't have any oval pukis. I should think about making a few.
I love the football pot, it came out beautifully. I'm going to have to try and make one now. Awesome work.
Thanks so much 😊
looks awesome -- looking forward to when you can fire it
Thanks me too.
Great pot.....boy that clay looks wonderful....
Thanks, come on out and I'll show the the spot collect this stuff.
I'm in New Mexico right now Andy!! So much to experience. Love the foot ball video. On my new list to do.
Have fun in New Mexico. If you want to see some ancient pottery you should visit the Maxwell Museum in Albuquerque.
Wonder if they ever used a sling mold. Prob not, but it would work well for that oval base. Great pot!
That would be an interesting approach to this form. It would definitely work. What they were using 700 years ago is anybody's guess.
great video Andy, really nice pot it looks awsum.
one thing, i have built oblong pots but not on purpose, lol.
keep up the fantastic job you are doing on your channel.
tom
Oops, I made another oblong pot. Thanks Tom!
Hey Andy..been away for a while catching up on your vids..that is just great what you have made..the shape so well executed, amazed how your clay firms up to smooth the base out so quick..on the edge of my seat as you turn it over..Man would love some clay body like that..great work as always
A good clay with lots of wet strength is the most valuable thing to a hand building potter. This is a good one, actually a blend of two clays, one that is soft and moldable and another that is firm and strong.
I really love what u done . And ı fell poor , ı can’t get any stuff and paint nothing in Turkey 😢
Spot-on!
Your content is so well done and the information in your videos is so great! I'm so happy I stumbled upon your channel a few days ago. I can't stop watching!!
You've inspired me to look into the traditional techniques for pottery in Canada! 😊 thanks for the great videos!
Thank you so much. I hope you give it a try.
Thanks. That was truly instructive and interesting.
Very welcome
It looks outstanding.👍🏼
Thanks 👍
Those yucca brushes behave better than all the brushes I buy.
They do make good brushes
Just beautiful! I'm so glad to have stumbled upon your video. New subscriber here.
Thanks for subbing! Welcome.
Your pot came out absolutely gorgeous 😍. Thank you for posting it.
Thanks so much 😊
Gotta make this pot, but Sir my freehand skills will no way approach yours
Practice makes perfect, or you could try sketching the designs in with pencil first.
Very cool.
Thanks
Hey I've been enjoying some of your videos. Especially on processing and use stuff you make. Thanks..
I'm wondering if you know of a channel that specializes in stoneware that you trust.
Thanks for watching my videos. I have no idea, I wouldn’t have any reason to watch a video about stoneware.
👍You did it very well.
Thank you
We call it "Head and Sholders"... I like the color... I like the paint design... I don't like the way that shape looks, but I could appreciate the capacity and practicallity, which are far more important than looks to me, but you want honest,... Good video!
Fair enough!
Hi Andy,
THANKS for all ur wonderful vids. !! Total beginner.
Paid member ( as of today )
I'm trying to find out from any experienced person about ash glazes with low temperature firing pottery eg in an open outside fire like in many of ur vids.
Did u use white ash , grey ash or black ash please ?
A recipe would be REALLY appreciated!!
(For those wondering ..
White ash comes from any wood burnt at really high temperatures eg in a kiln .
Grey ash medium temperatures.
Black ash is usually not fully burnt because of low temperatures eg u dampened the fire down for the night.
Hi welcome and thanks for the membership. It is my understanding that ash glaze requires a temperature of 1300 C to achieve and you cannot reach that temp in an outdoor fire. I have never even reached that temperature in my kiln, so not sure if it is doable at all.
try "lapiz lazuli" pigment as blue paint
I think that would be an interesting experiment, but not for this pot as it is a reproduction of a pot that was decorated with organic paint.
Fantastic job Andy, can't wait to see it fired. Question about organic paint, Do they remain sticky or smudge if not handled well before firing? I know your container of paint when it is dry is very thick and plastic like, are they like that also once painted on the pot?
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Thanks. The organic paint on the pot is generally dry to the touch, feels a little rubbery but not sticky. When I am working on the pot I will often sit it outside in the sun for a few minutes so the paint will firm up before I move on to another part of the pot that I way I won't smudge it or leave sticky fingerprints. But I live in Arizona where the relative humidity is usually very low. When we have humidity the paint can get sticky again, so your mileage may vary based on the weather where you live.
I had a two year old video blow up recently, then a couple of weeks later another, so I ended up adding something like 10,000 subscribers in a little over a month. Now it is back down to a more normal level. I wish I could figure out how to do that again.
Just because you asked, your pot has much cleaner lines. Maybe too clean. What was that type of pot used for? Cooking, storage, serving or something else? Also, about how much time do you spend painting? I know it would depend, but roughly? Are we talking 30min, an hour or many hours?
Thanks, there is definitely a tendency with modern potters to make them too perfect, our standards are too high. I have seen it with other, really talented replicates like the Thornburgs or Swink where the replica is just too good. I don't believe anyone knows what these were for, someone will need to do a study to look for food residues inside or something like that. Painting takes me hours, this one, because the designs were relatively large and bold was probably in the neighborhood of 3 hours. Others can take much more depending on the intricacies of the design.
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Thanks
so, can i just fire some clay, thin sheets, and then grind them up and use that powder as temper?
Can we use iron oxide and clay mixture for slip?
Yes, that would work just fine.
I have not had a chance to watch it. Ive got some good clay i think. Just need time.
We all need more time
does keeping an unfired piece for extended periods of time jeopardize the "integrity"? of the piece in the firing process? obviously you have a dry climate but is it possible in certain climates for a "dry" piece to wick up enough moisture to be an issue? love your content... i made a pipe to smoke out of from the clay that was stuck to the bottom of my sshoes after digging up some land to make a garden plot and fired it in a pit fire one night just to see if it would survive and 8 years later i still have the same pipe :)
No, I have had unfired pots sitting around for years before firing, it makes no difference. You should always pre-heat the pots before firing to drive off any remaining moisture, this will prevent most breakage.
Hey Andy!
I am fairly new to pottery so I have a few question if you dont mind.
What rocks and minerals would you recommend for painting your pottery? And, are the pigments you use/recommend food safe? If not, what earth pigments are food safe?
Are there any rocks/minerals i should avoid? Do the earth pigments stay on if you add water into/onto the pottery piece?
Sorry for all the questions, Im trying to find the cheapest and best way to fufill my new-found hobby.
Thanks
(edit) Extra question:
Can you pit fire pottery made from any mid-fire stoneware clay?
Check out my playlist on pottery paint, this is too complex a subject to cover in a comment. Organic pottery paint is the most non toxic, I generally don’t use mineral paint on pots I will be eating from.
I always dig my own clay so I wouldn’t know a “mid range stone ware clay” from a hole in the ground. But in my experience just about any clay can be fired outdoors like that if it has some extra temper added to it. Watch this video th-cam.com/video/n1zwTqlu4GI/w-d-xo.html
Alright, thank you for responding. I will definitely check out the video! :D
I'm thinking to make a pitcher.
In India we use picher's water for drinking
Will the water get colder than room temp in it?
What would be the process
The process would be about the same as that for making any pot except it would need a handle and a spout added. An earthenware pitcher would keep the water inside cooler, that's how they used to keep water cool around here before refrigeration.
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What was the pot used for?
Great question, unfortunately because these pots stopped being made around 1450 we have no idea what purpose they served. maybe some day an archaeologist will do some studies of these types of pots and discover something amazing.
I live in Israel, and we have buckets of ceramics in archeological sites. Expects often analyze pots for contents. It's doable!
@@chanaheszter168 They do that here occasionally, it would be an interesting study.