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Lela Naranjo Gutierrez (1895-1966) and her son Luther Gutierrez (1911-1987) collaborated on pottery following the death of Lela's husband Van in 1956. Lela and Van were true innovators at Santa Clara Pueblo. They specialized in pictorial designs in a variety of hues and colors not normally associated with pueblo pottery. Luther continued in his father's style.

This vessel is a reintroduction of a prehistoric vessel of over a thousand years ago.  It resembles a pair of gourds put together to form a two-chamber canteen.  The umbilical connector between the two globular sections is hollow so liquid from one chamber can pass to the other chamber.

Read more about this canteen here..