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Norman
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 
work.
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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