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Title: Navajo Woman Holding Baby in Cradleboard

Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by Todd | Fri, Feb 15th 2013, 3:50pm
In the 1990s, images of Johnson Antonio’s dolls began to appear in newspapers and magazines across the country, and he has received favorable revie...
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Title: Cochiti Pueblo Female Dancer Figurine

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 4:49pm
Females of the pueblo participate with the male dancers during the fall and winter animal dances which are a plea for rain and for bountiful crops ...
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Title: Cochiti Pueblo Male Buffalo Dancer Figurine

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 4:39pm
Animal dances at the pueblos are a plea for rain and for bountiful crops as well as an abundance of animals for food. Generally, buffalo, deer, ant...
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Biography: Mary Histia (1881-1973)

Category: Artists | Posted by Todd | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 11:05am
Mary Histia, is recognized as certainly the finest Acoma potter of the, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery ...
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Title: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Jar by Mary Histia

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 10:50am
Histia deserves to be classed as a Modernist. Her art is old, yet alive and dynamic, an expression of a continuing vigor. She did not confine her a...
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Valentine's Day Special: Jemez Pueblo Pottery Jar with Heart Design

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 1:30pm
The potter carved into the top center of this jar, a beautifully shaped heart, which is stone polished slip, and outlined it in deep red with a fur...
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Valentine's Day Special: Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Jar with Zuni Designs

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 1:13pm
Designs on pueblo pottery were influenced by many outside sources starting as early at the mid-1800s. Floral elements, birds, deer, and other desig...
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Valentine's Day Special: Laguna Pueblo 16-piece Pottery Nacimiento

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 12:54pm
When Max Early delivered this nacimiento to us, he explained that he was interested in creating a set that could and would be displayed year round....
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Valentine's Day Special: Four-color Polychrome Zia Olla with Hearts

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 12:14pm
There is precedence for picturing animals on pueblo pottery-namely the Mimbres, in the 1100s, featured insects, fish, birds, and large and small an...
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Title: Small Undecorated Utilitarian Bowl

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Mon, Feb 11th 2013, 4:01pm
This small bowl almost has the feel of a stone metate or vessel for processing medication. It is heavy in weight, appears to have been incised with...
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Title: Casas Grandes Black on Red Jar with Serpents

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Mon, Feb 11th 2013, 3:54pm
Native American belief systems feature a layered perspective of worldly features. It appears that to also be the case with the inhabitants of the C...
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Title: Tesuque Pueblo Rain God Figurine with Large Vessel

Category: Pottery | Posted by Todd | Sat, Feb 9th 2013, 3:04pm
There has been much speculation regarding the origin of Tesuque Rain God figurines. Figurative pottery from New Mexico pueblo potters has a long tr...
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