User:Kahwinhut/Caddo Pottery

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Caddo Pottery Caddo Pottery is the ceramic art or clay assemblages created from members of the Native American Caddo Tribe. The Caddo Tribe, whose name derived from the Caddo word "Kadudachu" or "Kadohadacho" also had many bands that made up the largely spread out Caddo tribe. The bands include the Hasinai with the Yatasi and NAtchitoches, and then there is the Caddo Proper bands which include the Nacagdoches, Anadarko, and Nebadache. ^[1]

Caddo ceramic vessels were not just created for art. There were more importantly made to serve the roles of everyday life and ceremonies. Today they are mostly viewed as objects of art, which is unfortunate to say the least. The Caddo were not in the least bit "savage" as is evident in the sophistication of their culture and construction techniques. The vast majority of Caddo pottery seen today was crudely and thoughtlessly taken from graves and village sites without the recording of provenonce or without the supervision of a professional archaeologist, so it destroys the ability to collect and gleam information about how the prehistoric Caddo used the pottery. The only justification for taking pottery out of the ground and graves is to learn from them, the context. If that is done without observations, recordings, measurements, maps, and pictures, then it is like erasing part of the past. It is like erasing part of the tribe's culture. Some pots, and actually a quite a lot of them, however were not used as utilitarian pots. Many hours of time and energy were put into building and decorating them. They were made for a very special purpose, which usually meant for ceremoney and for interrment into graves.^[2] Many people have come to realize that if you have found a shiney burnished, engraved Caddo pot, then you have found a Caddo grave item, and it should not have been disturbed. Caddo utilitarian pottery was n ot burnished and decorated.

Need reference to Caddo History.