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Valentine's Day Special: Jemez Pueblo Pottery Jar with Heart Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 1:30pm
The potter carved into the top center of this jar, a beautifully shaped heart, which is stone polished slip, and outlined it in deep red with a fur...
Read More Valentine's Day Special: Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Jar with Zuni Designs
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 1:13pm
Designs on pueblo pottery were influenced by many outside sources starting as early at the mid-1800s. Floral elements, birds, deer, and other desig...
Read More Valentine's Day Special: Laguna Pueblo 16-piece Pottery Nacimiento
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 12:54pm
When Max Early delivered this nacimiento to us, he explained that he was interested in creating a set that could and would be displayed year round....
Read More Valentine's Day Special: Four-color Polychrome Zia Olla with Hearts
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Feb 12th 2013, 12:14pm
There is precedence for picturing animals on pueblo pottery-namely the Mimbres, in the 1100s, featured insects, fish, birds, and large and small an...
Read More Title: Small Undecorated Utilitarian Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 11th 2013, 4:01pm
This small bowl almost has the feel of a stone metate or vessel for processing medication. It is heavy in weight, appears to have been incised with...
Read More Title: Casas Grandes Black on Red Jar with Serpents
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 11th 2013, 3:54pm
Native American belief systems feature a layered perspective of worldly features. It appears that to also be the case with the inhabitants of the C...
Read More Title: Tesuque Pueblo Rain God Figurine with Large Vessel
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Feb 9th 2013, 3:04pm
There has been much speculation regarding the origin of Tesuque Rain God figurines. Figurative pottery from New Mexico pueblo potters has a long tr...
Read More Tesuque Pueblo Rain God Figurine with Hair and Warrior Marks - C3343B
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Sat, Feb 9th 2013, 2:20pm
Tesuque Pueblo Rain God Figurine with Hair and Warrior Marks, Adobe Gallery carries authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery an...
Read More Title: Diné (Navajo) Set of Four Code Talker Pottery Tiles
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 4:27pm
Everyone is familiar with the famous Navajo men who are known as the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. It was they who came up with Navajo words...
Read More Title: Tesuque Pueblo “See, Hear, Speak no Evil” Rain God Figurine Set
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 12:41pm
According to Duane Anderson, author of When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo, sets of 3 rain god figurines based on the Chin...
Read More Title: Diné (Navajo) Wedding Vessel with Appliqué Design of a Cow and Horse
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 12:05pm
Silas and Bertha Claw broke with Navajo pottery tradition and the customs of their fellow tradesmen. Their forms remained true to tradition but the...
Read More Title: Diné (Navajo) Wedding Vessel with Appliqué Design of toads and cacti
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 11:56am
Silas and Bertha Claw were of the Shonto/Cow Springs region of the Navajo Reservation. Silas passed away in 2002 but there is no record of Bertha p...
Read More Title: Hopi Small Dish with Corn Plant Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 7th 2013, 4:22pm
Since Nampeyo of Hano's era of making pottery at Hopi House at The Grand Canyon, the Hopi have made small souvenir pieces for tourists. This small ...
Read More Title: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo Small Polychrome Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 7th 2013, 3:08pm
Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo Small Polychrome Bowl
Read More Title: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo Miniature Cylindrical Pictorial Pot
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 7th 2013, 2:54pm
Thomas Tenorio is of the Aguilar family from Kewa Pueblo. He generally makes very large pottery jars and bowls but apparently early in his career,...
Read More Title: Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Turkey Figurine
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Feb 7th 2013, 2:39pm
This small turkey figurine is signed Norma Jean without the addition of a surname. It is constructed from native Acoma clay and painted with minera...
Read More Title: Laguna Pueblo Large Polychrome Olla
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Feb 4th 2013, 1:33pm
This is most likely a Laguna Pueblo polychrome olla that is truly an exceptional work of art. This exemplary olla dates to circa 1920, and is a sup...
Read More Special Exhibit opens today! Cochiti Pueblo Figurative Pottery
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 1st 2013, 4:46pm
A collection of Cochiti Pueblo storytellers, nacimientos (nativity scenes), and other figurines from Pueblo potters of the past few decades.
Read More Title: Zuni Pueblo Polychrome 19th Century Olla
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Feb 1st 2013, 4:26pm
The interior of the neck of this large magnificent jar is painted black with a narrow band that is left in the matte state, not polished. It has be...
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