Adobe Gallery Blog
Subject: Pomo 19th Century Storage Basket
Category: Baskets | Posted by | Mon, Apr 22nd 2013, 4:28pm
Storage baskets of this style were the largest baskets made by the Pomo Indians. The Pomo women made these large, globular baskets to hold any vari...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving "Lady in Yellow with Coke Can"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Apr 22nd 2013, 4:07pm
Harrison Juan describes the inspiration for his innovative and distinctive current style as follows: "I was at an art show and I saw myself in the ...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Folk Art Wood Carving "Evil Pleasures"
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Mon, Apr 22nd 2013, 3:50pm
This sculpture is of a Female Skinwalker, which, in Navajo legend, would be much rarer than a male Skinwalker. There are several varieties of Navaj...
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...
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