Adobe Gallery Blog
Subject: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Seed Jar by Rose Chino
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:40pm
Rose Chino and her sisters, Carrie Chino Charlie, Vera Chino Ely and Grace Chino, are daughters of Marie Z. Chino and all of them are exceptional p...
Read More Subject: Large Hopi Tasap Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 4:19pm
This is an exceptional Hopi Tasap Katsina doll carved from a piece of cottonwood root. Tasap is a Hopi representation of a Navajo God. There are Ho...
Read More Subject: Historic Nineteenth Century Polychrome Bowl, circa 1870s
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 4:10pm
One can almost feel the peacefulness at sunset as the sky turns from a fiery red to yellow. Rarely do we see Zuni bowls with a red underbody. Since...
Read More Subject: Pair of Hopi Polychrome Cylindrical Jars
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 3:46pm
Pauline Setalla married into the Frog Woman/Feather Woman family clan. It was reported by her son several years ago that she was in ill health and ...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Painting of a Young Navajo Boy with Frog
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 3:27pm
Probably no other Navajo artist has chronicled activities of Navajo children as well or as often as Beatien Yazz. In a large percentage of his pain...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Tasap-Navajo Yei-bi-chai Katsina
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 1:10pm
This bronze of a Tasap-Navajo Yei-bi-chai Katsina is entitled "Spiritual Peace" and is the representation of a Hopi Katsina in honor of the Navajo ...
Read More Biography: Lowell Talashoma, Sr. (1950-2003)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 12:44pm
Lowell Talashoma, Sr.'s life story already seems to possess some of, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery an...
Read More Subject: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Depression-era Thunderbird Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 4:17pm
During the 1930s when the Depression-era was in full swing, New Mexico Pueblo Indians were severely affected. At Santo Domingo Pueblo (now Kewa Pue...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Knifewing Pin with Multiple Stones
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 4:03pm
This channel-inlay pin consists of turquoise, jet, mother-of-pearl, and Spondylus shell, mounted in silver bezels on silver backing. Silver wire ea...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Buff-on-red Jar signed Marie
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 3:28pm
The pottery of Maria and Julian Martinez is much more diverse than the casual observer recognizes. After their marriage in 1904, Maria was making p...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Unidentified Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Wed, Apr 10th 2013, 1:12pm
When we originally sold this katsina doll to a client in 2003, we were not able to identify it. Now that we have it back from the estate of that cl...
Read More Subject: Laguna Pueblo Mudhead Katsina Doll with Ceremonial Bowl
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Wed, Apr 10th 2013, 12:53pm
Very little is known about New Mexico Pueblo katsinas or katsina dolls so one must speculate when describing such. At Hopi, we know that Mudhead K...
Read More