Cochiti Pueblo Seated Female Figurine with Hands Outstretched [SOLD]

Damacia Cordero was a legend from Cochiti Pueblo. Her storyteller figurines and animal creations were unlike any other potter's work. This female figurine has the elongated torso, short legs, big ears, protruding nose and flat face of her traditional style.  Touches of red paint were used for the mouth and nostrils and for the belt and the chonga hairstyle. The figurine is not signed but there is no doubt as to the artist, as no other potter copied her work.

Condition:  the figurine is in original condition.  I would estimate it to date to the decade of the 1970s.

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: The Pueblo Storyteller by Barbara A. Babcock