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Subject: San Ildefonso Multi-colored Turtle Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 3:14pm
Innovation by the small population of potters at San Ildefonso Pueblo is a well-established fact. Maria Martinez could be the first considered to b...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Black Carved Bowl with Avanyu
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:55pm
Starting sometime in the 1950s, Margaret made smaller bowls, such as this one, for sale to tourists visiting the pueblo as well as to take to Royal...
Read More Subject: Zia Pueblo Polychrome Canteen with Zia Bird Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:34pm
Water-carrying canteens have been made by the pueblo people for several hundred years, long before the arrival of Europeans. Interestingly enough, ...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo Bowl with Appliqué Rim
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:21pm
This exquisite Acoma Pueblo bowl is signed with the initials of the potter and not revealing a first name. I have been unable to locate a potter wi...
Read More Subject: Hopi Monochromatic Low Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:08pm
Garnet Pavatea was known as Flower Girl and she was a Hopi-Tewa from the Tewa Village on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation. Her dad, Dewakuku, was...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Small Red Sgraffito Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:43pm
Golden Rod is a daughter of Petra Gutierrez and sister of Minnie Vigil, Lois Gutierrez and Thelma Talachy. The ancestral family home is Pojoaque Pu...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Matte Black Lidded Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:29pm
Dolores Curran, originally from Santa Clara Pueblo, married and moved to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo around 1977. She has specialized in miniature pottery...
Read More Subject: Black Carved Round Jar with Intricate Carved Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:16pm
Lucy Year Flower married into the Tafoya family. She married Joe Tafoya who was brother to Joseph Lonewolf and Grace Medicine Flower, the three of ...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of Apache Warriors
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 11:33am
Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, was indisputably one of America's foremost artists in mediums of sculpture, drawing, paintings, wood carving or ...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Talavai - The Morning Katsina
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 4:55pm
This bronze of a Talavai (Morning) Katsina is entitled "For a Better Brighter Tomorrow" and is the representation of a Hopi Katsina. In the early m...
Read More Subject: Ohkay Owingeh Child-size Water Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 3:58pm
Pottery making at this pueblo almost died out around 1900 except for a few women who made pottery for their own use. There was no market for these ...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Pueblo Buff-on-red Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:27pm
Albert Vigil (1927 - ?) and Josephine Cordova Vigil (1927 - ?) worked together producing pottery their entire married life. Josephine made the pott...
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