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Subject: Hopi Polychrome Small Storage Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 1:06pm
This wonderful Hopi polychrome small storage jar was probably made in the first half of the 20th century and could have been made by a member of th...
Read More Subject: Hopi White-slipped Wedding Vessel
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:32pm
Joy Navasie is among the most famous of Hopi-Tewa potters. She learned the skill from her famous mother, Paqua Naha, the first Frog Woman. Paqua de...
Read More Subject: Hopi Polychrome High-shoulder Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:25pm
Jean is a daughter of Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo and the granddaughter of Rachel Namingha Nampeyo. Her great grandmother was Annie Healing Nampeyo,...
Read More Subject: Black-on-black San Ildefonso Pueblo Jar signed Marie & Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 12:05pm
Following the death of Julian in 1943 at the age of 46 years, Maria was devastated as the two had worked together as partners their entire married ...
Read More Subject: Black-on-Black Plate Signed as Marie and Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:51am
Maria and Julian Martinez certainly established blackware pottery as a collectible for many generations to come. When Julian passed away in 1943, M...
Read More Subject: Black-on-Black Plate Signed Marie + Santana
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:49am
Maria and Julian Martinez certainly established blackware pottery as a collectible for many generations to come. When Julian passed away in 1943, M...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Tall Neck Maria Martinez Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 31st 2013, 11:37am
Maria Martinez was a very talented potter. She had the creativeness to devise numerous vessel shapes and each was visually superior to the shapes o...
Read More Subject: Historic Mojave Clay Doll Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, May 30th 2013, 3:15pm
The land of the Mojave, the most northern of the Yuman tribes, stretched from Black Canyon to the Picacho Mountains below today's Parker Dam (Calif...
Read More Subject: Hopi Tewa Laguna Polychrome Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, May 7th 2013, 2:41pm
Roberta Youvella Silas was born in 1939 and began making pottery in 1965. She was the daughter of Pauline Youvella (Laguna Pueblo) and Roy Youvella...
Read More Subject: Tesuque Pueblo Polychrome Bowl with Elaborate Designs
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, May 6th 2013, 3:59pm
This is an extraordinarily beautiful polychrome bowl of traditional characteristics from Tesuque Pueblo. It was exhibited in Adobe Gallery Tesuque ...
Read More Subject: Black and Sienna Pictorial Plate by Tony Da
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 1:26pm
Tony Da, from San Ildefosno Pueblo, was destined to become one of the finest artists of the 20th century. His grandparents, Maria and Julian Martin...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Red Carved Canteen with Stopper
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 12:49pm
Starting sometime in the early 1950s, Margaret Tafoya made smaller bowls, jars, candlesticks and canteens for sale to tourists visiting the pueblo ...
Read More Subject: Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Potsuwii'i Incised Revival Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 12:40pm
By 1890, pottery production at San Juan Pueblo (now Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) had come to a complete halt. In 1930, Regina Cata organized a pottery stu...
Read More Subject: Polychrome Bowl With Palhik Mana Design by Frog Woman
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 12:19pm
It is most unusual to see a bowl by Paqua Naha with a Palhikmana Katsina face as decoration. I don't recall ever seeing one before. Paqua Naha was ...
Read More Subject: Zia Pueblo 19th Century Dough Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 4:23pm
Dough bowls apparently were not made at Zia Pueblo before the late 1700s, possibly because of the difficulty in firing such large vessels or perhap...
Read More Subject: Hopi Tall Polychrome Wedding Vase
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:47pm
Helen Naha (Feather Woman) and Joy Navasie (Frog Woman) were sisters-in-law. Helen Naha married Joy Navasie's brother, Archie Naha. The two familie...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Black Carved Jar with Water Serpent
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:30pm
Most collectors are aware that Jennie Trammel made fewer pottery items than any of the other daughters of Margaret Tafoya. She had a full-time job ...
Read More Subject: Hopi Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Tile with Katsina Imagery
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:25pm
Tiles have been a popular collector's item for over a hundred years. The Hopi-Tewa potters have always been more prolific than the Rio Grande Puebl...
Read More Subject: Hopi Polychrome Bowl by Nampeyo, circa 1910-1920
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 11:53am
This large open bowl is attributed to the great Hopi potter, Nampeyo of Hano, based on similarities to many documented works of hers. The following...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Polychrome Jar by Tsayutitsa, c.1935
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 4:13pm
Tsayutitsa, also known as Mrs. Milam's mother, was certainly one of the finest potters of the first half of the 20th century from Zuni Pueblo. She ...
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