Santa Domingo Dough Bowl This is a Santo Domingo Pueblo Dough Bowl, made by people from Santo
Domingo. The Santo Domingo Pueblo is in New Mexico. The dough bowl
is made of clay and many-colored paint, and was used for making yeast
bread. The bread was for families and friends to have a big feast.
The design on the bowl is of leaves. Buckskin thongs were used to repair
the bowl. I liked this bowl because is was used to make bread for feasts.
Carol Brewer explained how to make a dough bowl: You use clay to make
coils. You make a "pukay" (a flat dish) to use as a mold. You build
the coils in the mold. Then you smooth out the coils, make the bowl
thin, set it out to dry, and use sandstone to sand it. You paint the
bowl entirely, and polish it with a cloth or rock to make it shiny.
You can paint it with iron paint, rocky mountain bee plant paint or
mineral paint. Then you fire it in an open pit. These bowls are made
for dough at Santo Domingo. In Santa Clara they are used for decoration,
but they were formerly used for dough. |