Seated Female Figurine Holding a Child [R]

Josephine Arquero is a daughter of Damacia Cordero and sister to Martha Arquero, Marie Laweka and Gloria Herrera, all of whom are recognized potters.  Josephine specializes in figurative pottery—mostly storytellers, nacimientos, and animals.  She dresses her human figures in traditional clothing. 

In this Seated Female Figurine Holding a Child, she put a polka dot blouse on the adult over which she wears a traditional pueblo dress that rides over one shoulder and under the other.  The single child she holds is dressed as a boy.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading: The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition by Barbara Babcock, et al.

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Corrales, New Mexico