San Bartolo Coyotopec

Images from the black pottery village of San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The town is best known for its Barro negro pottery - black clay pottery. For 2000 years pottery has been made here with a gray matte finish, but in the 1950s a technique was devised to give the pieces a shiny black finished without painting. This has made the pottery far more popular and collectable.