This charming little Cochiti bowl has a complex design on the inside, showing a 4 parted wheel with clouds and other unknown parts coming off of it. The exterior has a red-brown finish with a strong fire cloud on one half of the underbody. There are no exterior designs.
This is a lovely canteen, superbly crafted, in polychrome with deep brown and red brown. The top has a four petal spin wheel, the sides with geometric shapes either filled with a solid color or with hatch marks. The bottom has a warm chocolate slipped base that comes up to double sectional lines where the […]
My favorite features of this Santa Clara water jar are the crenelated rim and the strong shoulder just above the mid body. Strong, nearly horizontal shoulders always give me a sense of security, and a fine place to rest my eyes. This shoulder is particularly interesting because of the set-in rim carved out which creates […]
This beautiful jar is covered with Native graffiti all over the surface. There are two dates, 1920 and 1950, a face, rolling logs, a heart with an arrow through it… the list goes on. These marks are not from a child, but likely an adult, and likely within the household. This jar has a beautiful […]
This is a rare and beautiful example of an early piece by Nampeyo. The kachina is likely what we call the Shalako mana. Notice how the eyes are two different colors and how the earrings are so different from each other. These are traits of Nampeyo’s work. The canteen is beautifully formed, showing a flat […]
This is a sublimely beautiful bowl. Four smooth polishing stones come with the bowl and were originally purchased with the bowl when it came out of the Santa Clara Pueblo. The inside is black in appearance, with stone polishing. The outside is also stone polished and has brown variations mixing in with the black. It […]
