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    • Placing the oven on the coals

    • Placing the oven on the coals

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Rupert lifts oven onto hot coals before stacking wood around it. A metal sheet bent down on all sides serves as a lid to keep the flames out.
    • Stacking mesquite wood around the oven

    • Stacking mesquite wood around the oven

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Stacking the mesquite wood around the oven. Because of the wind, the wood caught fire from the coals before Rupert finished the circle of wood.
    • One pot left to fire

    • One pot left to fire

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Pot with triangle design is ready to be fired. The pots in front were fired the day before.
    • Examining the pot before firing

    • Examining the pot before firing

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Rupert checks the pot before putting it in the oven.
    • Forming the base

    • Forming the base

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • He forms the base of the pot by pressing the clay disk onto the form of the pot base.
    • Pot sherds

    • Pot sherds

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • The washtub is placed on hot coals and 2 large pot sherds are put on the bottom.
    • Last pot placed upon the pot sherds

    • Last pot placed upon the pot sherds

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • The pot to be fired is put on hot coals and 2 large pot sherds are put on the bottom.
    • Adding water to make red paint

    • Adding water to make red paint

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Rupert mixes a small amount of water with the hematite to make the red paint. It thickens when left standing but can be thinned again easily.
    • Last pot about to be fired

    • Last pot about to be fired

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • The lid of the oven is in the upper portion of the picture.
    • Using the original lid

    • Using the original lid

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • After discarding the second washtub as a lid, Rupert takes the metal sheet he used as a lid before.
    • Trying to find another lid for the oven

    • Trying to find another lid for the oven

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Fearing that the metal sheet might touch the pot, Rupert tries the other washtub as a lid, but finds that it fits too tightly and would be too difficult to remove.
    • Last pot being fired

    • Last pot being fired

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Washtub oven with lid rests on hot coals.
    • The following morning, the fire has burnt down

    • The following morning, the fire has burnt down

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • June 6. The fire in the pit has burnt down, leaving hot coals for the firing of the last pot. The oven still sits next to the pit with fired pots in it. The unfired pot is behind it. Another washtub used as an oven is in the foreground.
    • Wood being added to the fire

    • Wood being added to the fire

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • After placing the lid on the washtub, Rupert throws some wood on top of it to distribute the heat.
    • The firing of the last pot

    • The firing of the last pot

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Firing the last pot. The pots at left are fired.
    • Adding more ashes

    • Adding more ashes

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Rupert puts more ashes on the base pot.
    • The last pot being fired for forty minutes

    • The last pot being fired for forty minutes

    • Teiwes, Helga

    • Ceramics; Tohono O'odham artists; Tohono O'odham pottery; Indian pottery

    • Firing the last pot. The fire roars for 20 minutes and then smolders as hot coals for another 20 minutes.

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