Payupki Polychrome described by Colton (1956) represents a type of Polacca Yellow Ware made on the Hopi Mesas during the early seventeenth to early nineteenth century. This type reflects the continuation of firing in an oxidizing atmosphere using dung as fuel. Surfaces are red, buff or orange. Surface are polished, and orange, yellow to black, with some varieties exhibiting a thin white slip. Forms include bowls, jars, and dippers.

Decorations are in a red, dark red, to black mineral paint, Rims often exhibit solid decorations in red paint, and bases are often overed in a red slip. Jars exhibit a zonal layout, while those for bowl are variable. Spanish influenced motifs are absent, with designs reflet influences from Keres and Zuni Pueblo groups often combined with earlier Hopi designs and influences. Design styles become particular elaborate and well executed (Lammon and Harlow 1990). Designs include feather motifs, S-shaped frets with terrace, step, or straight terminations, : split triangles, diamonds, hourglasses, stacked panels, open terraces, stepped elements, and fringed aprons.

References:
1956 Colton, Harold. Pottery Types of the Southwest. Museum of Northern Arizona Ceramic Series No. 3. Flagstaff, Arizona.

1990 Frank, Larry, and F.H. Harlow Historic Pottery of the Pueblo Indians. Schiffer Publishing Ltd, West Chester Pennsylvania.

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