1988-04 Santa Clara Seed Pot with Feather Design

1988-04 Santa Clara Seed Pot with Feather Design

Santa Clara polychrome redware (with blue), mimbres feather design, “Sunbird,” Timothy Vigil. Timothy’s Mother is Minnie Vigil, daughter of Petra Gutierrez. Tim lives in Espanola and is a draftsman, as can be seen by the careful, symmetrical...
1980-02 Santa Clara Carved Red Melon Bowl

1980-02 Santa Clara Carved Red Melon Bowl

Santa Clara carved red-ware melon bowl, Angela Baca. Ms. Baca is the daughter of Severa Tofoya and all four of her children are potters. See Dillingham (1994:166) for Ms Baca’s picture, comments about potting, and a picture of a red-ware melon bowl. I asked Ms Baca to...
1980-01 Santa Clara Carved Redware Bowl

1980-01 Santa Clara Carved Redware Bowl

A picture of Belen Tapia is in LeFree (1975:62). See also, Trimble (1987:18 and 45-48) and Trimble (2007:21). She is better known for her distinctive polychrome-painted pots than for her carved ware. Born in 1914, she died in...