Cochiti Pueblo 10-piece Nacimiento by Snowflake Flower [SOLD]

Snowflake Flower was named Estephanita after her grandmother Estephanita Herrera, but she is known as Stephanie or Snowflake Flower.  She is a sister to Ada Suina.  She attended the University of New Mexico and received her BS in Education in 1985.  She had started making pottery figurines around 1979 and has specialized in storytellers, nacimientos, owls and other figurines.

She places prayer feathers on her figurines, something she started doing in 1983 when her daughter went in to a coma.  She continued to put feathers on the figures as a prayer for her recovery and that that prayer would be spread through more and more people as they purchased her pottery.  Finally, 16 years later, her daughter awoke from the coma.

This nacimiento includes Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, a female holding sheet music for Silent Night, a seated drummer, two angels, a cow, donkey, and sheep.

Condition: original condition

Provenance:  This nacimiento was made around 1995 and purchased by a resident of Albuquerque from whose estate we just acquired it.

Recommended Reading:  Nacimientos, Nativity Scenes by Southwest Indian Artisans by Guy and Doris Monthan