The identification and classification of pottery from vessels produced by potters residing in Hispanic villages in central and north-central New Mexico is a very difficult and often contentious issue. While previously established Pueblo pottery traditions appear to have easily supplied almost all of the pottery needs of the first wave of Spanish colonists into New Mexico, intermarriage and acculturation during the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century may have contributed to pottery-making becoming a part of the economy at many Hispanic villages.
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