Polished Red Ohkay Owingeh Bowl with Bird Design [SOLD]

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Perhaps this is not the first Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo) bowl with a painted design but it is the first of this style that I recall ever having seen.  Generally, Ohkay Owingeh bowls of this style have red around the concave area below the rim and the remainder of the bowl is the natural tan clay color, or, the red band is on the inside of the bowl and the outside is without color.

 

This Southwest Indian Pottery bowl has red slip over the entire exterior of the bowl and three painted designs of stylized birds.  The red slip is a beautiful dark red and was highly burnished.  Both interior and exterior show evidence of much use at the pueblo.  The bowl probably is from the early 1900s.

 

Condition:  except for the wear pattern from use, is in very good condition.

Recommended Reading:  Pueblo Pottery of the New Mexico Indians: Ever Constant Ever Changing by Betty Toulouse

Provenance:  from the estate of the former Chief Sunny Skies Trading Post, located on the main street in Carlsbad, New Mexico, for over 40 years and which was closed in 1977.  Chief Sunny Sky, whose other name was Clyde Hunt, was from Acoma Pueblo.  He was the son of Chief Big Snake (Edward Hunt) also of Acoma Pueblo.  This collection has remained in the family since the trading post was closed in 1977.

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