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Subject: Zuni Pueblo Serving Bowl with Red Underbody
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 4:26pm
Occasionally we acquire a piece of pottery that is a joy to hold and a visual delight. Such is this marvelous Zuni Pueblo serving bowl. Not only wa...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Small Polychrome Heartline Deer Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 4:17pm
This is an exceptional early twentieth century Zuni Pueblo olla that has possibly seen some use at the pueblo. As is typical of Zuni polychrome war...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Bowl with Plumed Serpents in Sculpture Relief
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 4:07pm
Vessels such as this Zuni bowl suggest use in ceremonial functions but most likely that has not occurred. It is more likely that such were made sol...
Read More Subject: Hopi Polychrome Bowl with Beautiful Blush
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 15th 2013, 12:51pm
Rondina Huma has been one of the most sought after Hopi potters for over a decade now. She has been featured in many publications and her work is r...
Read More Subject: Historic Polacca Polychrome “Style C” Bowl, circa 1860-1880
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Mar 14th 2013, 9:52pm
Polacca pottery style began around 1740. It did not fully become the predominant type at Hopi until about 1800, and it continued until about 1890. ...
Read More Subject: Acoma Four-color Olla with Parrot Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Mar 12th 2013, 6:19pm
Frances Torivio was a sister of Lolita Concho and the mother of Lilly Salvador and Wanda Aragon. She was one of the important matriarchs of Acoma a...
Read More Subject: Hopi Sikyatki-style Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sun, Mar 10th 2013, 8:31pm
Garnet Pavatea was known as Flower Girl and she was a Hopi-Tewa from the Tewa Village on First Mesa. Her dad, Dewakuku, was Hopi and her mother wa...
Read More Diné (Navajo) Wedding Vase with Yei and Hogan Designs by - Silas and Bertha Claw C3321E
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sun, Mar 10th 2013, 7:47pm
Diné (Navajo) Wedding Vase with Yei and Hogan Designs, Adobe Gallery carries authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine ...
Read More Subject: Cochiti Pueblo Male Storyteller with 3 Children
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Mar 9th 2013, 2:18pm
Ada Suina has always been recognized as one of the premier storyteller figurine potters. Her male figurines, such as this one, have a strong, chise...
Read More Title: Cochiti Pueblo Male Storyteller with a Child and Dog
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Mar 1st 2013, 3:33pm
What is known today as a Storyteller figurine had its beginning in 1964 from the hands of Cochiti Pueblo potter Helen Cordero. Alexander Girard, t...
Read More Subject: Pojoaque Pueblo Matte-finish Polychrome Seed Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 3:24pm
Mary Gutierrez is a member of the Talachy family of Pojoaque Pueblo but I have been unable to find any significant information regarding her. One w...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Polychrome Seed Jar by Minnie Vigil
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 3:10pm
Minnie Vigil is one of a family of talented potters. She and her sisters, Lois Gutierrez de la Cruz, Thelma Talache, and Goldenrod Garcia, are pott...
Read More Subject: Matte Painted Polychrome Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 26th 2013, 2:59pm
The combination of multiple colors and matte finish achieved by Lois and Derek de la Cruz results in a soft palette and pleasing visual sensation. ...
Read More Title: Pair Hopi-Tewa Polychrome Cylindrical Jars
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 25th 2013, 1:47pm
The history of Hopi cylindrical jars is somewhat cloudy. They obviously had no functional use for the Hopi, so they must have been made solely to s...
Read More Alexander E. Anthony in clay form
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Feb 23rd 2013, 1:06pm
Ever wonder what Alexander E. Anthony, Jr. would look like in clay form? Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery...
Read More Title: Zuni Polychrome Dough Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 18th 2013, 5:20pm
The majority of Zuni dough bowls seem to be 14 inches or less in diameter. Rarely do we see ones larger. That seems to be the standard for most of ...
Read More Title: Polychrome San Ildefonso Pueblo Interior & Exterior Decorated Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 18th 2013, 5:08pm
This is a turn-of-the-century polychrome bowl from San Ildefonso Pueblo that is totally slipped inside and outside with traditional Cochiti Pueblo ...
Read More Title: Cochiti Pueblo Female Dancer Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 4:49pm
Females of the pueblo participate with the male dancers during the fall and winter animal dances which are a plea for rain and for bountiful crops ...
Read More Title: Cochiti Pueblo Male Buffalo Dancer Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 4:39pm
Animal dances at the pueblos are a plea for rain and for bountiful crops as well as an abundance of animals for food. Generally, buffalo, deer, ant...
Read More Title: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Jar by Mary Histia
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 14th 2013, 10:50am
Histia deserves to be classed as a Modernist. Her art is old, yet alive and dynamic, an expression of a continuing vigor. She did not confine her a...
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