Charming Female Storyteller with 3 Kids [SOLD]

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Felicita Eustace, Cochiti Pueblo Potter
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 5-1/2” height x 4” depth x 3-1/2” width
  • Item # C3688.05
  • SOLD

At 88 years of age, Felicita Eustace is still working making storyteller figurines, using all native materials and firing in the traditional outdoor firing process.  She told me that she still has clay that her husband, Ben, gathered for her years ago so she doesn't have to worry about digging clay at this time.   She is so small and petit, probably less than 100 pounds, that I hope she does not ever have to dig clay.  The last time I saw her, over a year ago, her grandson was driving her around.

 

Felicita Eustace (1927 – ) signatureThis seated female is dressed in a traditional pueblo dress that is over one shoulder and under the other.  Her dress is cinched with a red woven belt.  She has on a necklace with a naja in the front and a pair of traditional buckskin moccasins.  The little boy on her leg holds a drum, the one in her arm holds a small pot and the one on her shoulder holds nothing.

 

Condition: very good condition

Felicita Eustace, Cochiti Pueblo Potter
  • Category: Figurines
  • Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
  • Medium: clay, pigment
  • Size: 5-1/2” height x 4” depth x 3-1/2” width
  • Item # C3688.05
  • SOLD

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