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Subject: Black Carved Round Jar with Intricate Carved Design
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 1:16pm
Lucy Year Flower married into the Tafoya family. She married Joe Tafoya who was brother to Joseph Lonewolf and Grace Medicine Flower, the three of ...
Read More Subject: Original Painting of Apache Warriors
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Apr 19th 2013, 11:33am
Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, was indisputably one of America's foremost artists in mediums of sculpture, drawing, paintings, wood carving or ...
Read More Subject: Bronze Sculpture of Talavai - The Morning Katsina
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 4:55pm
This bronze of a Talavai (Morning) Katsina is entitled "For a Better Brighter Tomorrow" and is the representation of a Hopi Katsina. In the early m...
Read More Subject: Ohkay Owingeh Child-size Water Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 3:58pm
Pottery making at this pueblo almost died out around 1900 except for a few women who made pottery for their own use. There was no market for these ...
Read More Subject: San Ildefonso Pueblo Buff-on-red Bowl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:27pm
Albert Vigil (1927 - ?) and Josephine Cordova Vigil (1927 - ?) worked together producing pottery their entire married life. Josephine made the pott...
Read More Subject: Santa Clara Pueblo Buff-on-red Jar
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 1:13pm
Belen Tapia was Sara Fina Tafoya's niece and Margaret Tafoya's first cousin. She had a long and productive life as a potter and achieved fame for h...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo White Corrugated Pottery Owl
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:53pm
This is a very traditional white corrugated owl figurine that was built up from coils of clay left in roll form, not smoothed out. The rows were th...
Read More Subject: Acoma Pueblo Black-on-white Seed Jar by Rose Chino
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Apr 18th 2013, 12:40pm
Rose Chino and her sisters, Carrie Chino Charlie, Vera Chino Ely and Grace Chino, are daughters of Marie Z. Chino and all of them are exceptional p...
Read More Subject: Large Hopi Tasap Katsina Doll
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 4:19pm
This is an exceptional Hopi Tasap Katsina doll carved from a piece of cottonwood root. Tasap is a Hopi representation of a Navajo God. There are Ho...
Read More Subject: Historic Nineteenth Century Polychrome Bowl, circa 1870s
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 4:10pm
One can almost feel the peacefulness at sunset as the sky turns from a fiery red to yellow. Rarely do we see Zuni bowls with a red underbody. Since...
Read More Subject: Pair of Hopi Polychrome Cylindrical Jars
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 3:46pm
Pauline Setalla married into the Frog Woman/Feather Woman family clan. It was reported by her son several years ago that she was in ill health and ...
Read More Subject: Navajo (Diné) Painting of a Young Navajo Boy with Frog
Category: Paintings | Posted by | Fri, Apr 12th 2013, 3:27pm
Probably no other Navajo artist has chronicled activities of Navajo children as well or as often as Beatien Yazz. In a large percentage of his pain...
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