Pueblo Indian Culture

Peublo I
The decorative painting Pueblo I is white ground color of the black on white vessels became true slip rather than pseudoslip of Basketmaker III. The Pueblo I pottery decorative painting applied in geometric and rectilinear design elements: zigzags, parallel, parallel-stepped and wavy lines, solid and dotted triangles, volutes, interlocking frets, checkers, and concentric elements. A horizon marker for the Pueblo I period is “neck-banding” not obliterating the coil strips jar necks of unpainted culinary ware.

Pueblo II
A pottery marker for Pueblo II is spiral-coiling as opposed to the ring coil manufacture of vessels and semi obliteration and annealing previously. This corrugated ware, as it is called,  was typical of much of the culinary pottery of both Pueblo II and Pueblo III.

Pueblo III
By Pueblo III pottery complex attained its climax. Excellent black-on-white styles were produced in the chaco, mesa verde. At Kayenta  a black-red- and white on orange polychrome was fashioned. Polychrome were also made in the Hopi Indian country. The Pueblo III pottery main design motifs were the complicated arrangements of triangles, frets, bands, and spirals executed in solid colors or in halchure alternating with the plain. A typical range of Pueblo III vessel forms for the painted wares would include handled pitchers and flat bottomed mugs, flat globular seed bowls, ladles, open bowls, and some effigy forms.