Folk Art Bird Design
Hopi-Tewa wall plaque (convex), polychrome design with four framing lines, red “half moon” with a geometric bird filling the lower three-quarters of the design, unsigned. ca 1930s (?). I think this is an extraordinary design executed with exceptional skill. For...
White-Slip Ware
White-Slipped Hopi-Tewa pot with abstract exterior design signed “Buffalo Maiden (Mary Ami).” This is not an exceptional pot, but Mary Ami does not seem to have been a prolific potter and her pots rarely come on the market. Mary was born in 1919; her mother (“Dalee”)...