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Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Buff-on-red Jar

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:13pm
Belen Tapia was Sara Fina Tafoya's niece and Margaret Tafoya's first cousin. She had a long and productive life as a potter and achieved fame for h...
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Subject: Acoma Pueblo White Corrugated Pottery Owl

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:53pm
This is a very traditional white corrugated owl figurine that was built up from coils of clay left in roll form, not smoothed out. The rows were th...
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Subject: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Seed Jar by Rose Chino

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Large Hopi Tasap Katsina Doll

Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Historic Nineteenth Century Polychrome Bowl, circa 1870s

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Pair of Hopi Polychrome Cylindrical Jars

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | 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 ...
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Subject: Navajo (Diné) Painting of a Young Navajo Boy with Frog

Category: Paintings | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Tasap-Navajo Yei-bi-chai Katsina

Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by Todd | 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 ...
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Biography: Lowell Talashoma, Sr. (1950-2003)

Category: Artists | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Depression-era Thunderbird Necklace

Category: Jewelry | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: Zuni Pueblo Knifewing Pin with Multiple Stones

Category: Jewelry | Posted by Todd | 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...
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Subject: San Ildefonso Buff-on-red Jar signed Marie

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | 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...
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