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Subject: Diné (Navajo) Velveteen Blouse with Silver Buttons
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Sat, Mar 23rd 2013, 10:28am
Santa Fe Style fashion has been modeled somewhat from the velveteen clothing of Navajo women. The simple velveteen blouse of the Navajo was expande...
Read More Subject: Hopi Pottery Tile with Salako Mana Katsina Face, pre-1900
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 10:04pm
Hopi pottery tiles had their beginning as utilitarian objects by the potters of the villages. In making pottery vessels, it is imperative to add a ...
Read More Biography: Sofia Medina (1932-2010)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 9:08pm
Sofia Pino married into the Medina family in 1948. She and her new, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and ...
Read More Subject: Zia Pueblo Large Polychrome Pictorial Olla
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 9:03pm
Sofia Pino married into the Medina family in 1948. She and her new husband Rafael (1929-1998) lived with his grandmother, Trinidad Medina who taugh...
Read More Artist: Max Early (b.1963)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 8:19pm
Max Early - Laguna Pueblo Artist, Adobe Gallery carries authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine art.
Read More Subject: Laguna Pueblo Large Polychrome Olla by Max Early
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 8:14pm
Max Early was born into the Turkey Clan of his mother and Bear Clan of his father at Laguna Pueblo. He grew up with his grandparents. During his ea...
Read More Subject: Hopi Pueblo Tasap Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 2:12pm
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: Hopi Pueblo Rugan Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 2:06pm
Rugan is a class of katsinas that come in groups, accompanied by the Corn Maidens, who play on rasp musical instruments. There are various types of...
Read More Subject: Hopi Pueblo Mona Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Fri, Mar 22nd 2013, 1:59pm
According to Barton Wright, the Mona Katsina functions as the River or Thunder Katsina and appears singly in the Mixed Katsina Dances. His function...
Read More Biography: Martina Vigil (1856-1916) and Florentino Montoya (1858-1918)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Tue, Mar 19th 2013, 4:08pm
Martina Vigil Florentino Montoya San Ildefonso Pueblo during the 1890s, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery ...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Pueblo Polychrome Wedding Vessel
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Mar 19th 2013, 4:00pm
As Jonathan Batkin has well documented, there were several outstanding potters at San Ildefonso during the 1890s whose work can fairly accurately b...
Read More Subject: Diné (Navajo) Sterling Silver and Turquoise Ring
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Mar 19th 2013, 2:41pm
This exquisite ring is comprised of a wide shank that is split into 3 legs at the top of the ring that support a curved silver base on which rests ...
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