2024-11: Large canteen with complex swirling birds
The spout is 1.5″ long. Each handle extends 1.25″ from the body and is 3.1875″ high. Karen Charlie is a fine potter and this large canteen is the form, size and design for which she is best known. The size of the vessel impresses. The...
2024-05 Canteen bank
This collection contains 5 other pots by Nellie, who has a reputation of being an indifferent potter and painter. Occasionally one finds a superior example of her work (cf 2010-04) and pot 2024-05, described here, is one of these well-formed and painted examples....
2024-02 Bi-lobed early 20th century canteen
One lobe has a maximum diameter of 2.6875-inches. The second lobe has a maximum diameter of 3.0-inches, 12% larger. There is a 0.875-inch gap between the two lobes. The bimodal shape of this canteen is unique and intriguing. However, the jar cannot stand upright on...
2021-13 Richly colored upright canteen with Polik’Mana images
The Polik’Mana imagery on this canteen has been popular with collectors for about 150 years and is still seen on pottery made at Hopi. Indeed, before I bought this canteen, the collection already had over a dozen representations of this Corn Grinding...
