Cochiti Figurine of a Moccasin with 7 Children [SOLD]

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Felicita Eustace, Cochiti Pueblo Potter
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 2-1/4” height x 5-1/8” length x 2-3/8” width
  • Item # C3688.67
  • SOLD

Felicita Eustace (1927 – ) signature

Here is a Cochti Pueblo pottery storyteller figurine version of the Old Woman who lived in a Shoe.  In this example, seven little boys are clamoring all over a pueblo moccasin.  Felicita is always dreaming up something slightly different from the ordinary.  She is a very talented potter and continues to surprise us.

 

I believe Felicita Eustace, at 88 years of age, is still working making pottery figurines, using all native materials and firing in the traditional outdoor firing process.  I have not heard that she has retired, a word that seems not to exist among pueblo potters.

 

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading: The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition by Barbara Babcock, et al.

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Corrales, New Mexico

Felicita Eustace, Cochiti Pueblo Potter
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 2-1/4” height x 5-1/8” length x 2-3/8” width
  • Item # C3688.67
  • SOLD

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