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Cochiti Pueblo Female Storyteller with 14 Kids by Seferina Ortiz - C3688.22

Category: Pottery | Posted by Adobe Gallery Team Member | Sun, Jan 1st 2017, 11:26am

Seferina Ortiz Storyteller C3688.22This is an early Seated Female Storyteller with 14 Kids by Seferina Ortiz, probably made in the early 1970s as it resembles the style of those known to have been made around 1972. There are 14 children on the storyteller. 

The adult female wears her hair in the traditional chonga, she has a squash blossom necklace and bracelets on each wrist.  The children are dressed in different clothing from each other.

 

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