Traditional Acoma Pottery are all made from natural earth ingredients to include the clay, old broken pottery shards, white earth slip, color pigments - yellow and brown. Both the clay and pottery shards are broken down and grinded using the old traditional grinding stones. They are sifted to a very fine powder before mixing with water to make the block of clay. Once the pottery is shaped it's set out to dry. Once thoroughly dried, the raw pots are hand polished with white earth slip using shiny polishing stones. Pottery is then painted/designed with natural yucca brush. The yellow paint comes from a sandstone dirt strained with a fine cloth. The brown paint comes from stones found in dry river beds on the Acoma reservation. Final process is firing. We use kiln firing today for a more secured heat setting and for quality product at the end. Everything we put into our pottery is found on the reservation in which where we live in. We gather our ingredients throughout the year.