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Biography: Margaret Maria Tafoya (1904-2001)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 12:57pm
Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001) Maria Margarita Tafoya - Corn Blossom, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and f...
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 Biography: Paqua Naha (1890-1955) Frog Woman
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 12:30pm
Paqua Naha was the original Frogwoman and the mother of Joy Navasie, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and...
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 Biography: Helen Naha (1922-1993) Feather Woman
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 4:14pm
Helen Naha - Feather Woman and Joy Navasie - Frog Woman were sisters-in-law. Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pot...
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: Northern New Mexico Landscape Painting
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:21pm
Summer storms over the mountains and hillsides of New Mexico are dramatic, exciting, and absolutely spectacular. Many New Mexico artists have captu...
Read More Biography: Ben Quintana (1923-1944) Ha-a-tee
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:12pm
It was a real tragedy that Ben Quintana (Ha-a-tee) of Cochiti Pueblo lost his life during World War II at only the age of 21 years. He was an outst...
Read More Subject: Cochiti Pueblo Original Painting of Dancers
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 3:04pm
At the age of 15, Quintana won first prize over 80 contestants, of whom 7 were Indians, for a poster to be used in the Coronado Cuarto Centennial c...
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