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Pottery Maine presents both traditional and contemporary pottery
by artists from several pueblos and tribes including Navajo artists
Wesley Begaye, Irene White, Nancy Chilly;
Tesuque artist Teresa & Thelma Tapia; Rosita DeHererra of
Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan); Pine Ridge Sioux artist Red
Starr; Ralph Aragon of San Filipe Pueblo; Myrtle Cata of San Felipe
and Ohkay
Owingeh (San Juan) Pueblos, and Mohawk potter Sosakete,
Roger Perkins,
Robert Vigil and Virginia Gutierrez of Nambe Pueblo.
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  Norman
Red Starr is a Sioux potter from Pine Ridge,
South Dakota. Born in 1955, he is self-taught and has been
an active potter for over 25 years working with etched pottery
that is hand coiled and produced in the traditional way. He
has won numerous awards for his work at the Santa Fe Indian
Market including first place awards
At left,
top, is a highly polished black ware pot that is spectacular
in every way. It is a very large canvass for Norman's art
measuring 8 inches tall by 10.25 inches in width. This impressive
size allows him to portray an entire buffalo hunt on the top
portion with mounted Sioux in pursuit. The bottom quadrant
is also a herd of buffalo on the run. In the middle there
are six kachinas in dance. This pot is one of the finest that
Norman has ever produced, a tremendous undertaking representing
hours and hours of intense work. It is rare, it is fine and
it is very much museum quality. Your
price $2,850 ~ Item #MP237
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Item ~ 30% off ~ Your price $1,995 SOLD
Red Starr
has won a number of awards at many venues including the Santa
Fe Indian Market, the Eight Northern Pueblos Show, New Mexico
State Fair, and the Heard Museum Show. His work is widely
known and collected. His work has been published in several
publication - foremost in "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary
Pottery" by Berger & Schiffer where Guy Berger uses
one of Red Starr's pots in his introduction (written in the
summer of 1999).
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  Elmer
Red Star is of Sioux lineage
and works with sgraffito redware, blackware miniature bowls
and jars, some with turquoise inlay such as these.
At top is a beautiful pot by Elmer Red Star featuring fine
sgraffito, a deep polish and turquoise inlay. It measure 4.5
inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price
$675 ~ Item #MP262. Click
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 "Elmer
Red Star is one of the earliest artists to carve pottery in
the sgraffito technique popularized by Joseph Lonewolf, Grace
Medicine Flower and Tony Da. Joan Crowley, Director of the White
Buffalo Gallery, promoted his work as early as 1976" Dr.
Gregory Schaaf, "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies".
At right is a very well done seedpot with great detail and
polish. It measures 2.5 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your
price $320 ~ Item #MP261. Click
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 Virginia
Gutierrez is from Nambe Pueblo
and has not produced any new work since the 90s. She was an
active potter beginning in the 1970s working with polychrome
seedpots, jars and was particularly known for her plates. She
is the sister of Marie Herrera and Emiliana Gadd Vigil; sister-in-law
to Minnie Vigil, Lois Gutierrez, Thelma Talachy and Gloria
'Goldenrod' Garcia.
At top is a delightful seedpot by Virginia that measures 1.75
inches tall by 5 inches wide. Click here to see an enlargement.
Your price $650 ~ Item #MP249.
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exhibited regularly at the Santa Fe Indian Market and her work
is now mostly seen in collections throughout the country. It
is very rare to see her pottery for sale on the open market.
At right is a small seedpot measuring 2 inches tall by 2.5
inches wide. Your price $250 ~ Item #MP250.
All her work was handcoiled, pit fired and hand painted with
natural pigments. Dr. Gregory Schaaf mentions Virginia and Robert
Vigil as the two prominent potters of Nambe as the tradition
has  come
down to the few. He further states in his book "Pueblo
Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies" (printed in 2000)
"Today, Nambe pottery remains rare. Few pieces have come
up for auction in the past 20 years" Her work and interviews
are in included in Stephen
Trimble's "Talking with the Clay", Dr. Gregory Schaaf's
"Pueblo Indian Pottery 750 Artist Biographies"; and
"Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes &
Blom.
At left is one of
Virginia's highly coveted plates measuring 11.5 inches in diameter
and an inch high. The circumference is micaceous slip and a
small smoke cloud on the back speaks to its traditional creation
using pit firing - a very difficult process in creating a plate.
This is the Nambe equal to a Maria Martinez plate. Your
price $1,800 ~ Item MP260. Click
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These pots represent
a very rare opportunity to add work by a celebrated Nambe potter
to your collection.
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Myrtle
Cata, of the San Felipe and
San Juan Pueblos, created this beautiful
pot. She is a full-blooded Native American and a member of the
Turquoise clan. She has been an active potter since 1979 and is
principally self-taught.
She
has been given awards for her work at the Santa Fe Indian Market,
the New Mexico State Fair, and the Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonials
at which she consecutively placed first for two years. She is
included in Gregory Schaaf's books "Southern Pueblo Pottery:
2000 Artist Biographies" and "Pueblo Indian Pottery
750 Artist Biographies" as well as in Hayes & Blom's
book "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni". To see
Myrtle Cata's work go to the Micaceous
pottery page.
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 Martina
Aguino of Ohkay Owingeh
Pueblo became an active potter in the 1970s working with carved
and incised buff-on-red jars and bowls. She was born in 1920 and
passed away in 1982. She was the wife of Pete Aguino and the mother
of Diego Aguino with whom she sometimes collaborated and co-signed
pottery they created. Between 1974 and 1981 she won 1st, 2nd and
3rd place awards on several occasions at the Santa Fe Indian Market.
Her work can be seen at the Albuquerque Museum and is included
in Gregory
Schaaf's "Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies"
and Lillian Peaster’s "Pueblo Pottery Families"
This 35-year-old pot is in perfect condition (no scratches, chips,
rubs, cracks - no signs of wear) having been part of a well preserved
and respected estate collection. It measures 6.25 inches tall
by 6 inches wide. You won't find a more perfect period piece at
such a modest cost. Your price $250 ~ Item
#MP250.
San
Juan Pueblo has become Ohkay
Owingeh (pronounced O-keh o-WEENG-eh) which translates
to “Place of the Strong People.” San Juan Pueblo is
no more. The pueblo's tribal council restored the community's
traditional name in September 2005. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
has instructed all state agencies to refer to the pueblo by its
new name. The new name is the traditional Pueblo name for the
village, used before the Spanish arrived 400 years ago.
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