Effigy
This large effigy is more pot than bird, perhaps the image of a flightless Hopi penguin. It joins three other avian effigies in this collection: 1) 2019-06 by Michael Hawley, who was not Native, 2) 2020-08 by Bobbie Silas and 3) 2016-09 by Rachael Sahmie, Jean’s...
Effigy
The body of the dancer is 1.625″ deep. The base of the figure is roughly 2-inches square. While the first two items by Darlene that entered this collection are jars (1988-02 and 1989-02), she has become better known for her tiles (2016-04, 2021-14) and...
Canteens, Effigy, Kitsch
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....
Effigy
The shards are 0.3125” thick. This pot consists of two shards displaying the results of shapeshifting between a lizard and a man. There is something both unsettling and alluring about bodily transformations between humans and animals, Such metamorphosis occurs in the...
Effigy
The shards are 0.25” thick. This is a two-shard pot displaying an arresting image of shapeshifting between a fish and a man, the direction of metamorphosis being unclear. Pueblo mythology describes shapeshifting, but I do not know if Nathan had specific narratives in...
Effigy
This is a face carrying a complex history. I see this man as a mystic wounded warrior, my impressions of him mixed. On the one hand he has a strong visage with a layered iconography. He carries a lot of painful history in those marking. On the other hand, his inset...
