Adobe Gallery Blog
Subject: Zia Pueblo 19th Century Dough Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 4:23pm
Dough bowls apparently were not made at Zia Pueblo before the late 1700s, possibly because of the difficulty in firing such large vessels or perhap...
Read More Biography: Helen Naha (1922-1993) Feather Woman
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 4:14pm
Helen Naha - Feather Woman and Joy Navasie - Frog Woman were sisters-in-law. Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pot...
Read More Subject: Hopi Tall Polychrome Wedding Vase
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:47pm
Helen Naha (Feather Woman) and Joy Navasie (Frog Woman) were sisters-in-law. Helen Naha married Joy Navasie's brother, Archie Naha. The two familie...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Black Carved Jar with Water Serpent
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:30pm
Most collectors are aware that Jennie Trammel made fewer pottery items than any of the other daughters of Margaret Tafoya. She had a full-time job ...
Read More Subject: Northern New Mexico Landscape Painting
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:21pm
Summer storms over the mountains and hillsides of New Mexico are dramatic, exciting, and absolutely spectacular. Many New Mexico artists have captu...
Read More Biography: Ben Quintana (1923-1944) Ha-a-tee
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:12pm
It was a real tragedy that Ben Quintana (Ha-a-tee) of Cochiti Pueblo lost his life during World War II at only the age of 21 years. He was an outst...
Read More Subject: Cochiti Pueblo Original Painting of Dancers
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:04pm
At the age of 15, Quintana won first prize over 80 contestants, of whom 7 were Indians, for a poster to be used in the Coronado Cuarto Centennial c...
Read More Subject: Original Painting "The Harvest Dancer" by Tommy Edward Montoya
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:54pm
Tommy Montoya's pastel drawings of traditional pueblo rites represent the blending of old and new that characterizes the work of young Native Ameri...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of a Jemez Pueblo Buffalo Dance
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:46pm
The plan for a painting studio at the Santa Fe Indian School had been four years in the making before it finally opened in the fall of 1932. Doroth...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Five-strand Fetish Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:35pm
There were several artisans at Zuni Pueblo in the mid-1900s who became famous for their carvings of small bird and animal fetishes from a variety o...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Kachin Mana Katsina "Emerging"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:52pm
The kiva, which plays so vital a role in Hopi ceremonials, is a womb-like underground chamber from which the katsinas emerge. Hopis describe severa...
Read More Subject: Hopi Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Tile with Katsina Imagery
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:25pm
Tiles have been a popular collector's item for over a hundred years. The Hopi-Tewa potters have always been more prolific than the Rio Grande Puebl...
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