Another traditional pottery piece. This one was used for storing seeds in the fall for planting in the spring. The hole in the lid was large enough to put seeds in, but too small for birds or rodents to get at the seeds. In the spring, they smashed the pottery to get the seeds.
This land was granted to the Acoma through a Spanish Land Grant that has remained in force, and they are the only Indians living on their own land and not sent to reservations.
The Acoma Pueblo is America's oldest continuously inhabited community. A population of 6,000 most living on Pueblo land with only a dozen or so families living on top of the mesa Pueblo. The Pueblo has served as the physical hub of the Acoma for nearly 2,000 years. The land is barren and hostile, but the Indians have managed to survive on it.
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