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Pueblo Pottery Maine presents both traditional and contemporary pottery by artists from several pueblos and tribes including Navajo artists Lorraine Williams, Wesley Begaye, Irene White, and Dennis Charlie; Tesuque artist Lorencita Pino, Teresa & Thelma Tapia; Cherokee potter Amanda Plummer; John Montoya of Sandia Pueblo; Rosita DeHererra of San Juan Pueblo; Pine Ridge Sioux artist Red Starr; Joe & Thelma Talachy of Pojoaque Pueblo; Ralph Aragon of San Filipe Pueblo; Myrtle Cata of San Felipe and Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan) Pueblos, and Mohawk potter Sosakete, Roger Perkins.


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Norman Red StarrNorman Red Starr is a Sioux potter from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Born in 1937, he is self-taught and has been an active potter for over 35 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 Redd Starrwork. It is rare, it is fine and it is very much museum quality. Your price $2,850 ~ Item #MP237  Click here to see two enlargements of this masterwork.

The pot at right measures 4 inches tall by 5.25 inches wide. It has twp bands of etched buffalos running at the top and at the bottom of the pot with a sun dancer face on opposing sides and a heartline bear surrounded with feathers on the other two opposing sides. Your price $550 ~ Item #MP231. Click here to see an enlargement.

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 Star's pots in his introduction (written in the summer of 1999).

The bottom pot has four dancing kachinas and measures 3.75 inches tall by 4.75 inches wide. Your price $585 ~ Item #MP236. Click here to see an enlargement.

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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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MP217Rosita De Herrera is a full-blood Ohkay Owingeh Native American. She began making pottery in the late 1970s working with incised polychrome buff-on-red bowls and incised black ware bowls. She has been refining her work over the years and is now one of San Juan's premiere potters. She is the daughter of Tomasita Montoya and the sister of Dominguita Naranjo and taught her son, Noran.

This pot at right measures 4.25 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price $250 ~ Item #MP217 SOLD

Rosita's work has excellent form with precise carving and incising, highly polished and flat surfaces plus the use of different slips for added contrast and accents. Her use of different colors, textures and shapes blend well to produce a unique, high quality pottery that is innovative, aesthetically impressive and well worth collecting.

She has exhibited at the Santa fe Indian Market and the Eight Northern Pueblos arts & Crafts Fair. Her work has been published in "Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies" by Gregory Schaaf; "Southwest Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes & Blom; "Talking With The Clay" by Stephen Trimble; and Lillian Peaster's "Pueblo Pottery Families"

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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Beatrice Torres of Ohkay Owingeh has been an active potter since 1950 working with plain and incised polychrome redware She is included in Gregory Schaaf's book "Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies". Beatrice shows her work regularly at the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Fair.

This is a vintage pot from a well-known private collection. It measures 2.25 inches tall by 2.75 inches wide. Your price $110 ~ Item #MP238.

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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