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Subject: San Ildefonso Polychrome Jar by Crucita Gonzales Calabaza (Blue Corn)
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:19pm
Blue Corn is responsible for reviving Polychrome pottery at San Ildefonso Pueblo. After Maria and Julian Martinez made the Black-on-black famous, t...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo 19th Century Polychrome Olla with Capped Spirals
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Apr 22nd 2013, 4:38pm
The primary design feature on this jar is what has been named capped spirals and it appears on Zuni pottery dating since 1850. In this jar, two cap...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Matte Black Lidded Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 4:33pm
Dolores Curran, originally from Santa Clara Pueblo, married and moved to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo around 1977. She has specialized in miniature pottery...
Read More Subject: Male Storyteller with 5 Children made by Alma Concha
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 3:36pm
Alma is one of six Loretto sisters originally from Jemez Pueblo. Her sisters are Mary Toya, Fannie Loretto, Lupe Lucero, Edna Coriz and Dorothy Tru...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Multi-colored Turtle Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 3:14pm
Innovation by the small population of potters at San Ildefonso Pueblo is a well-established fact. Maria Martinez could be the first considered to b...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Black Carved Bowl with Avanyu
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:55pm
Starting sometime in the 1950s, Margaret made smaller bowls, such as this one, for sale to tourists visiting the pueblo as well as to take to Royal...
Read More Subject: Zia Pueblo Polychrome Canteen with Zia Bird Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:34pm
Water-carrying canteens have been made by the pueblo people for several hundred years, long before the arrival of Europeans. Interestingly enough, ...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo Bowl with Appliqué Rim
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:21pm
This exquisite Acoma Pueblo bowl is signed with the initials of the potter and not revealing a first name. I have been unable to locate a potter wi...
Read More Subject: Hopi Monochromatic Low Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 2:08pm
Garnet Pavatea was known as Flower Girl and she was a Hopi-Tewa from the Tewa Village on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation. Her dad, Dewakuku, was...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Small Red Sgraffito Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:43pm
Golden Rod is a daughter of Petra Gutierrez and sister of Minnie Vigil, Lois Gutierrez and Thelma Talachy. The ancestral family home is Pojoaque Pu...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Matte Black Lidded Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:29pm
Dolores Curran, originally from Santa Clara Pueblo, married and moved to Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo around 1977. She has specialized in miniature pottery...
Read More Subject: Black Carved Round Jar with Intricate Carved Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:16pm
Lucy Year Flower married into the Tafoya family. She married Joe Tafoya who was brother to Joseph Lonewolf and Grace Medicine Flower, the three of ...
Read More Subject: Ohkay Owingeh Child-size Water Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 3:58pm
Pottery making at this pueblo almost died out around 1900 except for a few women who made pottery for their own use. There was no market for these ...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Pueblo Buff-on-red Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:27pm
Albert Vigil (1927 - ?) and Josephine Cordova Vigil (1927 - ?) worked together producing pottery their entire married life. Josephine made the pott...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Buff-on-red Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:13pm
Belen Tapia was Sara Fina Tafoya's niece and Margaret Tafoya's first cousin. She had a long and productive life as a potter and achieved fame for h...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo White Corrugated Pottery Owl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:53pm
This is a very traditional white corrugated owl figurine that was built up from coils of clay left in roll form, not smoothed out. The rows were th...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Seed Jar by Rose Chino
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:40pm
Rose Chino and her sisters, Carrie Chino Charlie, Vera Chino Ely and Grace Chino, are daughters of Marie Z. Chino and all of them are exceptional p...
Read More Subject: Historic Nineteenth Century Polychrome Bowl, circa 1870s
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 4:10pm
One can almost feel the peacefulness at sunset as the sky turns from a fiery red to yellow. Rarely do we see Zuni bowls with a red underbody. Since...
Read More Subject: Pair of Hopi Polychrome Cylindrical Jars
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 3:46pm
Pauline Setalla married into the Frog Woman/Feather Woman family clan. It was reported by her son several years ago that she was in ill health and ...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Buff-on-red Jar signed Marie
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 3:28pm
The pottery of Maria and Julian Martinez is much more diverse than the casual observer recognizes. After their marriage in 1904, Maria was making p...
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