2014-04 Seedpot with Lizard and Horned Toad Warriors Hunting Ants
This pot is exceptionally thin-walled and therefore light, as if formed on a potter’s wheel. A slight variation in form can be felt inside the bowl, the only visible indication that it was coil-formed. As detailed in the description for jar 2013-01, Nathan only formed...
2013-10 Polychrome Five-Shard “Pot”
Although “shard-pot” is probably the best way to describe 2013-10, the entire item as conceived by Nathan is here. This is not the remnant of a larger, broken piece. Rick Dillingham (1952-1994) was a nationally recognized ceramicist, pueblo pottery dealer, author, and...
2013-09 Small Incised Canteen
This small canteen is Nathan Begaye sui generis, being his unique self. I am not aware of any other Pueblo ceramicist who uses decorating techniques even remotely similar to those used here, though Ed Wade links Begaye’s incising to prehistoric pottery of the eastern...
