2007-16 Effigy Vessel with Molded Human Face

2007-16 Effigy Vessel with Molded Human Face

This asymmetric Hopi effigy vessel has a molded human face, black and red painted facial features, headband, and ornamentation. The chin is pressed from the inside; the ears, eyebrows, and nose are applied. The painting is careful and delicate. It is unsigned but...
2006-03 Two Corn Gourd Pot – Plainware

2006-03 Two Corn Gourd Pot – Plainware

Unpainted, highly burnished and kiln-fired with a sloped lip and graceful shape, the pot is of a style unique to “Al Q.” Note that the ears of corn are formed by pushing the wet clay from the inside and then carving the raised external clay. Born in 1938 and raised in...
2003-12 Jemez Poster Pain Rain God

2003-12 Jemez Poster Pain Rain God

Although this figure was probably made in the 1980s, such tourist pieces were made as early as the 1880s. Hayes & Blom (1996:157) suggest that pink clay figures (like 2003-12) were probably made in Jemez, while very similar figures from Tesuque are generally...