This sandal is pure kitsch, and like all great kitsch it makes me smile: especially those little toe prints. Obviously it is tourist art and I don’t know if it was peddled with a purpose. I think of it as a napkin ring. Well-formed and carefully painted, it...
Photographs: King Galleries This effigy of a Macaw parrot has historical roots that bridge two pueblos: Hopi and Zuni. On the one hand it was formed by a Hopi man and is closely modeled after examples from the ancient Hopi village of Sikyatki, like the one included...
The head is 3.06″ wide (ear-to-ear) and 2.375″ deep (nose to back). The walls are about 0.5″ thick. The rawhide is about 4.75″ long. The clay used for the mask fired a light brick red. The glaze appears to be commercial and fired at a high...
The statue is 7.125″ deep (front to back) at the base; 6.125″ deep, chest to the lip of the spout. This collection contains a number of Hopi effigy pots (see category listing), but nothing that approaches the form, detail or expressiveness of this work by...
1.3125 deep at hat; 1.5625″ deep at feet. This hunky man is a curious, delightful oddity by two friends, one the teacher of the other, Mark Tahbo and Larson Goldtooth. I do not yet know what each man contributed to the formation of the figure. Larson is the only...
The beak is 2″ long and the tail is 1.5″ long. This is a prehistoric Sikyatki polychrome effigy vessel of a macaw parrot. Except… …Except it is was made about 30 years ago by a White man. Other than that — its clay, form, paint,...
