This Isleta tin retablo is in excellent condition. The four glass sides are painted on the reverse showing a wavy pattern in red, yellow and green. The print is of an angle guiding the Christ child and it’s advertising a doctor’s remedy with pills. It reads in English: Dr. Ross’s Life Pills, A Surefire Remedy.
This is a small and sweet retablo on wood by Jorge Sanchez, a santero from Albuquerque, NM. It shows Our Lady of Sorrows. The back is titled and signed by the maker.
This is a very attractive rattle. One side is designed with a partial flower, the upper area with stepped designs. The other side shows what appear to be a pair of horns, as well as stepped shapes. Every design is outlined with white paint and filled in with other colors. The upper portion of each […]
This is a sweet, small, Cochiti painted drum. Black, white, red and green paints are used to delineate the spaces created by the hide holding the two ends together. The flat surface of the drum has a black border around each edge. The wear to the hide is evident. This small drum was likely native […]
This carved, wood bird was likely used on the end of a stick for dancing and or celebration, or possibly as a toy for a child. The patina is wonderful and shows good age. Layers of paint are apparent, from deep red to deep green.
This is a highly interesting Santa Clara creation of Saint Santiago on his horse. Santiago kicked the Moors out of Spain during the early years. He is a Saint adopted by the Pueblos as they converted to Catholicism. He is always seen entering on a horse to seek out his mission as he is played […]
This pendant has the feel and look of a reliquary, but is in fact two finely painted images. One is an angle or saint holding a cornucopia and the other is the Virgin Mary in full regalia. The glass covering each side is a thick piece of glass to fit.
A total set of Apache playing cards contain 40, so this is a half deck at 20. This is a particularly attractive set, in a primal way, and are likely early, estimated to be the last half of the 19th century. All of the cards are very close to the same size and all have […]
Here we see a storyteller by Marco Oviedo, showing a penitentes procession during Holy week. Self flagellation is represented by one figure and the death cart being carried by another figure. The Hermanos Penitentes were a religious brotherhood which flourished in the mountain villages of northern New Mexico from the mid-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth century. The figures […]
This is a very charming and well decorated strike a light bag. The front side is intricately decorated with white, red with white hearts, pink, green, yellow, light blue and deep blue. The bordered front encloses a teepee like design in the center topped with a red cross. The back side mostly shows the hide […]
