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Subject: Original Painting "The Harvest Dancer" by Tommy Edward Montoya
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:54pm
Tommy Montoya's pastel drawings of traditional pueblo rites represent the blending of old and new that characterizes the work of young Native Ameri...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of a Jemez Pueblo Buffalo Dance
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:46pm
The plan for a painting studio at the Santa Fe Indian School had been four years in the making before it finally opened in the fall of 1932. Doroth...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Five-strand Fetish Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:35pm
There were several artisans at Zuni Pueblo in the mid-1900s who became famous for their carvings of small bird and animal fetishes from a variety o...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Kachin Mana Katsina "Emerging"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:52pm
The kiva, which plays so vital a role in Hopi ceremonials, is a womb-like underground chamber from which the katsinas emerge. Hopis describe severa...
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 Biography: Sadie Adams (1905-1995) Flower Woman
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:16pm
Sadie Adams' Hopi name is Flower Girl (Flower Woman) and she signed, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and...
Read More Subject: Hopi Second Mesa Plaque
Category: Baskets | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 1:04pm
Coiled basketry of this type is made exclusively in Second Mesa villages on the Hopi Reservation. Each stitch of a coil is interlocked into the adj...
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 Biography: Nampeyo of Hano (1857-1942)
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 11:38am
Nampeyo of Hano was the first pueblo woman to gain recognition for her, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery ...
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 ...
Read More Biography: Tonita Vigil Peña (1893-1949) Quah Ah
Category: Artists | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:44pm
Tonita Peña, whose Indian name was Quah Ah, was born in 1893 in the - Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery an...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of a Pueblo Corn Dancer, circa 1921
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Sat, Apr 27th 2013, 12:39pm
This original painting by Tonita Peña (Quah Ah) of San Ildefonso Pueblo was probably painted in 1921, this being based on the dual signature of her...
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