Laguna Pueblo Shallow Bowl Dated 1911 [SOLD]

Laguna and Acoma Pueblos are relatively close to Gallup, New Mexico, and potters from those villages have always participated in the Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial’s arts and crafts fair held annually in August. 

It is quite likely that a Laguna potter decided to increase her chances of a sale at the Ceremonial by making her dish a Gallup souvenir of that’s year’s event.  It is amazing that this dish has survived without any damage for over a hundred years.

The berries on the flower are the clue that this was made at Laguna rather than Acoma in origin.  One sees berries often on early pottery from Laguna.  This is also a trait that the Laguna potters took to Isleta Pueblo in the late 1800s when a group of them migrated and settled at Isleta.  Almost all Isleta polychrome pottery has berries in the designs.

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: from a collection in Albuquerque

Recommended Reading: Acoma & Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham