Canteens, Folk Art Other Animal Design
Height includes the 0.8125-inch neck. Width includes the two handles with a combined width of 1.1875-inches or about 0.594-inch for each handle. This canteen is small enough to fit into the palm of your hand. The circular feather swirl is elegant; the...
Folk Art Other Animal Design, Wedding Vase
Photographs courtesy of King Galleries. Click on image to expand. Base is 5.0 ” wide. If big-horned sheep go to heaven, this is what their afterlife must look like. Mountain ranges float by like clouds; slightly-purple sheep graze nearby. You...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
Each handle is about 0.6875″ deep. This collection has a large number of pots by Nampeyo and these are listed both in the “Artist List” and summarized in Appendix D. Even more significantly, the collection includes a wide range of her work, from...
Effigy, Folk Art Other Animal Design
It seems that large bear bank 2012-15 has given birth to cub 2017-02. My pots do not usually team up together, but these two bears are even cuter together than their considerable individual appeal. While unsigned, this small bear is unmistakably also by Louise Rose...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
Daisy seems to have invented small “ant pots” like 2015-07 and related an engaging story that made them attractive to buyers. Barbara Kramer relates this story, having been told it (I think) by Daisy, though the citation is not clear: “Long ago, (Grandmother...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
Small pots painted with ant images seem to have been the invention of Daisy Hooee Nampeyo who correctly believed that they and their story would appeal to tourists. See 2015-07 for the story as told by Grandmother Nampeyo to children and an example of this style pot...
