KUMEYAAY OLLA Old

Old Kumeyaay clay olla artifact found by pot hunters in western Imperial County in the late 1900s.

The dark areas along the cracks of the antique Yuman pot are original old Indian repairs of a natural adhesive, likely piñon pitch (natural pine glue) applied to the relic. The ancient Kumeyaay-Diegueño pot was probably used after its cracks were repaired and eventually left in the desert.

This old Kumeyaay pottery picture is part of the Indigenous Peoples of California Pottery Museums:

KUMEYAAY POTTERY ART OLLAS of California Yuman Indians features the modern California Indian Kumeyaay Pai Pai pottery art of the Yuman Indians of Southern California, Arizona, Mexico. KUMEYAAY.INFO's extensive photographic documentation of Native American pottery artist includes online picture catalogs of their traditional and contemporary clay pottery, including environmental portraits and biographies of the Native pottery artists. KUMEYAAY.INFO is currently building large, captioned photographic collections of rare and old antique ancient pottery artifacts for its on-line Indigenous Peoples of California Pottery Museum.

KUMEYAAY POT: Imperial Valley College Desert Museum