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Pueblo Pottery Maine presents both traditional and contemporary pottery by artists from several pueblos and tribes including artists Wesley Begaye, Irene White, Nancy Chilly of the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah in the Navajo language); 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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Jason and Nancy Yazzie of the Navajo Nation are a great team making very fine traditional handcoiled, brown pots with complex imprinted, polychrome Yei figures and other designs.

Their pottery has great shape and fluid, detailed Yei figures and assorted graphics.

This pot at left measures 7.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide and is an excellent example of this Native American pottery genre.

Your price $360 ~ Item #MP259. Click here to see an enlargement.

At right is another fine piece by Jason and Nancy Yazzie measuring 4 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your price $125 ~ Item #MP257.

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Sosakete, also known as Roger Perkins, is of the Mohawk Nation Bear Clan and has been working with clay since 1994 to revive the tradition of Iroquois pottery as it was made and used prior to the introduction of Dutch trade pottery in the 1660s. He has won numerous awards for his pottery including First Place in the traditional category at the Eiteljorg Indian Market. In 1990, Sosakete studied the traditional pottery techniques of the Hopi under the teaching of acclaimed Hopi potter, Preston Dwyaney. For a complete biography of Sosakete, please click here.

The pot above measures 8.5 inches tall by 6 inches wide. It is traditionally incised with patterns and bears the smoke clouds of outdoor firing using hard woods. For those who collect the authentic pottery of North American Native American peoples, these creations by this dedicated Mohawk potter are essential to expand the cultural spectrum of a museum class collection.Your price $495 ~ Item #MP243. Please click here to see an enlargement. SOLD

Sosakete's work is widely collected as authentic Mohawk pottery created in the historically traditional way. The clay for his pottery is gathered and processed by hand within the Akwesasne territory which lies under the borders of Ontario, Quebec, and New York state. It is handcoiled or pinched and pit fired - no wheel or machinery is used to create or fire his work - it is authentically created as it would have been 400 years ago. These are very important distinctions to be made from other "Mohawk Revival" pottery which involves the use modern, commercial glazes and electric kilns.

The pot at left measures 8.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide with a beautiful, graceful shape and incising. Your price $495 ~ Item #MP244.
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Sosakete's work is in several permanent collections including the Governor's Collection at the New York State Museum, Albany, New York; the Fenmore House Museum, American Indian Wing, Cooperstown, New York; the Akwesasne Museum Collection, Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, New York; the Seneca National Museum, Salamanca, New York; the Longhouse Collection, Ganondagan State Historical Park, Victor, New York; the Sir William Johnson Hall Home Historical Collection, Johnstown, New York; and the Ronathahionni Cultural Center, Cornwall Island, Ontario, Canada.

Not unlike the pueblo pottery tradition, the clay is gathered from river beds with prayer and offering made in gratitude for its use. The clay is cleaned by hand with quartz and granite stones being pulverized and used as temper. Each pot is hand coiled and wood fired. Traditionally this genre of pottery was created for utilitarian purposes and used for cooking and holding liquids. The pots were hung over fires taking advantage of the pottery's shape and also rounded at the bottom which allowed for even heat dispersal as well as maintaining vertical position when used on an incline such as a hill or mountainside. The decorative incising is without a doubt aesthetically pleasing but it also serves to create friction and a more secure grip when lifting the pottery. Designs were also used to recognize clan and village possessions.

The pot at right perhaps best presents the authentic image of woodlands pottery as it existed centuries ago. One would expect to catch the sent of the smoldering hardwood fire of from this pot was born. This pottery was one of the many tools essential for the survival of a people who called the American wilderness their home. There is a deep beauty in its primitive and essential purity and one could easily wonder, perhaps visualize, the people who lived their lives around the fire where this pot was used to sustain the lives of men, women and children hundreds of years ago. It measures 11 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Your price $495 ~ Item #MP245. Please click here to see an enlargement. SOLD

The evolution of Woodland pottery reached its peal in the late 15th and early 16th centuries when the Mohawk population reached its pinnacle. Thereafter, with the introduction of European trade goods and foreign diseases, the traditional society of the Mohawk Nation began to disappear with half of the population succumbing to Smallpox epidemics over a tragically brief period of time. More information on this genre of pottery and life for the woodland tribes can be found on the Native Tech Website.

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Irene White of the Navajo Nation created this traditional Yei pot. She is self-taught with over 20 years experience. This is a traditional coiled, brown pot with imprinted, polychrome Yei figures (male and female) and designs.

This pot measures 5 inches tall by 5inches wide. Your price $125 ~ Item #MP258.

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Nancy Chilly of the Navajo Nation created this bear claw pot which is a traditional coiled, brown pot with imprinted, polychrome bear fetish and katchina sunface designs.

This pot measures 4 inches tall by 5inches wide. Your price $120 ~ Item #MP256.

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