2021-19  Hopi sandal napkin ring

2021-19 Hopi sandal napkin ring

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...
2020-08 Modern Sikyatki Macaw effigy pot, Zuni clay

2020-08 Modern Sikyatki Macaw effigy pot, Zuni clay

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...
2019-21  Runner: pueblo revolt mask

2019-21 Runner: pueblo revolt mask

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...
2019-20 Hopi maiden statue

2019-20 Hopi maiden statue

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...
2019-13  Hunky man statue

2019-13 Hunky man statue

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...
2019-06  Modern Sikyatki bird effigy pot

2019-06 Modern Sikyatki bird effigy pot

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,...