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Pottery Notes (continued) Groups using tlie coiled pottery method include: Mono Paiute Hopi Navajo Zuiii Tanoan Pueblo Keresan Pueblo Tarabumare Paddle and Anvil Method.- The clay paste is kneaded into a biscuit and worked and patted between the potter s ^ hands into a slightly concave-convex disc, about 4 inches m diameter and 3/4 inch thick. The disc is then placed on a mushroom-form anvil (which has been dipped into temper to_ prevent the paste from sticking to it), held in the left hand, and patted with a wooden paddle. The result is a shallow saucer, which is placed on the potter's left knee. (The potte is seated crosslegged throughout the operation..) ./ Next, the potter prepares a foot-long cylinder of clay and pinches it on to the edge of the saucer with his|fingers. He then places the anvil inside the vessel, holding it vertically against the side wall as a backup while he strikes t e outside of the vessel with the paddle, building up and thinning the sides. This process is repeated until the vessel is finished. Groups using the paddle-and-anvil method include: Mojave Luiseno Cahuilla Diegueno Cocopa Pima Papago Ute Havasupai The Apaches did not make pottery, but traded generally with the Pueblos to obtain what they needed. Now, Pueblo pottery types changed frequently. Often the change in form and design was rapid. These changes can be traced by excavations in the layers of village rubbish piles and dated by the tree ring calendar. Several factors show that the paddle-anvil method does not exist among the Pueblo, and never did: (1 ) No paddles are in use today by the Pueblo, and none have been found in ancient sites (2) No mushroom-form pottery anvils or substitutes that would offer inner-wall resistance of a growing pot to a blow of a paddle on the outer wall have been found (3) The black corrugated Pueblo pottery bears fingerprints and coil sutures on the exterior. A paddle could not have been used without obliterating these marks The pottery made by the Mono and Yokuts in California is very crude, and represents the westernmost extension of the Pueblo non-paddle method.