Chuck and his wife Nanette holding a matched set of 1920's Santa Clara foxes effigy candle holders.
Welcome to PuebloTreasures.com. What you
will see in browsing through this website are thousands
of pottery pieces produced by Native Americans. The purpose of this
website is to help you
understand the incredibly wonderful spectrum of ceramics created by the
native peoples of the
Americas during the past 2,500 years. What you will see contained in
the various sections of this
website are pottery pieces made before, and after, the arrival of
Columbus, and even many wonderful
ceramic items created during just the past few years.
I created this website because, when I
first began collecting, I found that there was a dismaying
dearth of information about many of the types of Native American
pottery that interested me the most.
Several excellent new reference works have been published in recent
years covering some specific areas
of collecting (Tesuque Rain Gods and Mojave Pottery, for example), but
even those new books are
naturally limited in scope by the restrictions of the print medium.
With the establishment of this
website, I now have the ability to share with you thousands upon
thousands of images of individual
pieces of Native American ceramic original art. I am also hoping to be
able to gradually compile a
massive database of creator information and historical background data
on native ceramics production
in the various parts of the Americas. I hope you will find the visual
and print information contained
in this website to be both educational and enjoyable.
For the time being, all the items you
will see on this website are owned by myself, Chuck Rozanski.
I have been collecting Pueblo pottery since 1994, and have been avidly
collecting since 1998. During
that time, I have been able to acquire over 6,000 different Pueblo
ceramic items, ranging from tiny
miniatures, to massive ollas. The initial plan with the website will be
to only take photographs of all the pots (each item from several
different angles), and to make those photographs available for you in a
comprehensive search program. That search program already exists, but
is currently limited to just a few fields: pueblo, form, creator, and a
couple more. Later on, however, as time permits, you will be able to
also read detailed descriptions for each individual item. Creating this
website will be an organic process by which additional information is
added continually, for an indefinite period of time. The collection
itself will also be growing, with new items added on a weekly basis.
Chuck in his office with his huge Sara Fina Tafoya
One point that I wish to make very clear
right from the beginning is that I have no pottery for sale at this
time. My collection has been created as a study collection, and as such
it is my intent to keep all the items listed as a part of the
collection indefinitely. While none
of my pottery is for sale, most of the pieces shown on the website are
available for viewing and/or study, by
appointment, in the Mile High Comics corporate offices in Denver,
Colorado. Please be aware, however,
that I travel quite a bit in my full-time role of President of
www.MileHighComics.com,
the largest
retailer of comic books in America, so any appointment to view my
pottery needs to be scheduled well
in advance. To schedule an appointment, please contact me at
chuck@milehighcomics.com.
In addition to the website, I may also
soon be starting an e-mail newsletter about Native American
pottery. That newsletter would not only provide you with updated
information about changes to this
website, but also creator news, information about upcoming shows and
auctions, and news and reviews
about past events in the world of Native American pottery collecting.
If you would like to sample my
pottery newsletter (when I actually get around to creating it...), just
send me a note at chuck@milehighcomics.com, and I'll add you to my
mailing list. No newsletter exists right now, and there may not be one
for quite some time. But by sending me your e-mail address now, you'll
be first in line when I finally get around to sending out my first
newsletter. So you know, I always keep all e-mail
addresses in complete confidence, and if you ever wish to drop the
newsletter, all it takes a simple
e-mail note letting me know you want off the mailing list. For what
it's worth, I currently have 90,000 fans receiving my weekly comics
newsletters, with over 400 voluntary opt-ins per week! My
comics newsletters are so popular, at least in part, because they tend
to be both informative and entertaining...
My final topic for this introduction is
a request for your participation in the process of building
this website. While I will be working hard to guarantee the accuracy of
the information I post, I
make no claims to be an all-knowing expert. If you have any information
which you think I would find
helpful in building the content of this website, please contact me!
Working together, I know we can
create a wonderful free online resource for collectors of Native
American pottery that will be
unequaled in the world!
Happy collecting!
Chuck Rozanski,
President - PuebloTreasures.com
March 11, 2003
