Adobe Gallery Blog
Subject: Hopi White-slipped Wedding Vessel
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:32pm
Joy Navasie is among the most famous of Hopi-Tewa potters. She learned the skill from her famous mother, Paqua Naha, the first Frog Woman. Paqua de...
Read More Subject: Hopi Polychrome High-shoulder Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:25pm
Jean is a daughter of Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo and the granddaughter of Rachel Namingha Nampeyo. Her great grandmother was Annie Healing Nampeyo,...
Read More Subject: Original Quincy Tahoma Painting "Fire Dance"
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:15pm
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Native American young men hastened to volunteer to serve their country. The numbers of Na...
Read More Subject: Black-on-black San Ildefonso Pueblo Jar signed Marie & Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:05pm
Following the death of Julian in 1943 at the age of 46 years, Maria was devastated as the two had worked together as partners their entire married ...
Read More Subject: Black-on-Black Plate Signed as Marie and Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:51am
Maria and Julian Martinez certainly established blackware pottery as a collectible for many generations to come. When Julian passed away in 1943, M...
Read More Subject: Black-on-Black Plate Signed Marie + Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:49am
Maria and Julian Martinez certainly established blackware pottery as a collectible for many generations to come. When Julian passed away in 1943, M...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Tall Neck Maria Martinez Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:37am
Maria Martinez was a very talented potter. She had the creativeness to devise numerous vessel shapes and each was visually superior to the shapes o...
Read More Subject: Historic Mojave Clay Doll Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, May 30th 2013, 3:15pm
The land of the Mojave, the most northern of the Yuman tribes, stretched from Black Canyon to the Picacho Mountains below today's Parker Dam (Calif...
Read More Subject: Skunk Unknowingly Sharing Bear’s Watermelon
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Thu, May 30th 2013, 1:53pm
Paul Vigil is the son of famous Tesuque Pueblo artist Tomas Vigil (1889-1960). He primarily paints single figure pueblo dancers and animals. In thi...
Read More Subject: Diné Sterling Silver and Turquoise Earrings
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, May 30th 2013, 11:52am
This pair of earrings appears to be from the last half of the 20th century. Each is stamped with a capital R enclosed by a capital D. I have not ...
Read More Biography: Jean Sahme Nampeyo (1948 - )
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, May 11th 2013, 11:37am
Jean is a daughter of Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine art.
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Eototo and Aholi Katsinas "Morning Prayers"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Tue, May 7th 2013, 2:59pm
On another planet at another time, some say, Eototo and Aholi were inseparable friends. The two personalities retain that proximity as Hopi Katsina...
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