This beautifully crafted Horsehair Ginger Jar comes complete with a lid adorned with a miniature dream catcher. Feathers and beads put the finishing touches on this elegant piece of pottery.
The ancient Indian tribes made this pottery to honor a favorite horse or to celebrate the birth of a horse. This pottery is very time-consuming and hazardous to create. The pottery is poured, fired for a period of time after which it is removed from the kiln, hair from the mane and the tail of a horse are placed on the pottery. The hair creates the dark lines and the smoke from the burning hair creates the darker grey areas. The pottery is then returned to the kiln where it finishes firing. When the firing is complete, the pottery is removed from the kiln, spray-glazed and a dreamcatcher is hand-woven into each piece.
Each piece of pottery comes with a card describing the horsehair pottery process. This horsehair pottery is created by an Arizona artist with Mohican heritage who is known as Lone Hair.
