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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 Special Exhibit: The Chuck and Jan Rosenak Collection of Native Art
Category: Other Art Objects | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 1:09pm
Chuck and Jan Rosenak were major collectors of folk art when they lived in New Mexico. They authored a couple books on Navajo folk art. Several yea...
Read More Biography: Tomás Vigil (1889-1960) Pan-Yo-Pin
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 12:59pm
Thomas Vigil (1889-1960) whose Indian name Pan Yo Pin translates to, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and...
Read More Biography: Julián Martinez (1885-1943) Pocano - Coming of the Spirits
Category: Artists | Posted by | Fri, Feb 8th 2013, 12:50pm
Julián Martinez (Pocano - Coming of the Spirits) was born in 1885, Adobe Gallery authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and f...
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