Native American Storytellers

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Judy Lewis of Acoma Pueblo creates the most wonderful and charming storytellers - hand sculpted, hand painted - incredible detail and facial expressions on mother and children plus bluebirds, butterflies, cats, dogs, ladybugs, different hairstyles and headbands. These are clearly and intentionally created with individual characters by an artist who truly loves her work. This is why her storytellers are so highly valued and collected. The storyteller at right has four children and is unique for having one child holding a smaller child. It is 3 inches tall. Your price $210 - Item #ST268

Judy has won 1st and 2nd place awards over the last 12 years at the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show. Her work is carried at the Indian Craft Shop, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. and other galleries throughout the West. Her work has been published in Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery" and Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery". Judy Lewis storytellers are highly collected and not that easy to come by. A great addition to your collection and a good value.

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Linda Jo'Povi Askan (Cactus Flower) is of Santa Clara and Navajo lineage and has worked since 1984 with black-on-black, carved blackware and redware jars, bowls, wedding vases, storytellers, nativities and animal figures. She is in her mid-50s and a resident of Santa Clara Pueblo where her mother, the late Marie Askan, was born. Linda graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She worked for several years as a Respiratory Therapy Technician before undertaking her pottery work full-time. Her work is included in "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies" by Dr. Gregory Schaaf.

This is a very fine, uniquely creative piece with deep polish and holding a highly polished pot which is not attached to the main figure. This piece measures 4.25 inches tall by 4 inches wide and 4.5 inches deep. Your price $395 ~ Item #ST334.

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Pamela E. Quintana is from Cochiti Pueblo and has been an active potter sine 1989 working with polychrome jars, bowls and storytellers. She is the daughter of Margaret and Pablo Quintana. Her work is regularly show at the Indian Gift Shop, U.S. Department of the Interior, washington, D.C. and is included in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's book "Southern Pueblo Potters: 2000 Artist Biographies" and Berger and Schiffer's book : Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery and Directory of Artists". The storyteller at right, bottom, measures 3.75 inches tall. Your price $145 ~ Item #ST332.

Pamela's storytellers feature five very animated children and are created from micaceous clay which is a natural type of clay that contains mica and fires to a golden color. Some believe that it was micaceous clay that brought the Spanish in search of a city of gold. The painting is rich and the sculpting very well executed. The pieces convey a deep feeling of happiness and family as all good storytellers do.

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Margaret Gutierrez of Santa Clara Pueblo is the daughter of famed potters Lela and Van Gutierrez and sister of Luther Gutierrez (1911-1987). Margaret and Luther Gutierrez produced some of the most beautiful polychrome pottery to ever come out of Santa Clara winning dozens of awards and being included on every major book and magazine dealing with contemporary Native American pottery. Favorite designs were the Avanyu, pueblo dancers, rain clouds, lightening, and sky bands. Her work is included in Arizona Highways, Indian Arts Magazine, Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery"; Rick Dillingham's "Fourteen Pueblo Families"; Lillian Peaster's "Pueblo Pottery Families"; "Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery" by Douglas Congdon-Martin; and "Southwest Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes and Blom to name just a few.

This is a fantastic, whimsical piece by Margaret portrays the joy of a mother playing with her 5 children - all in the role and attire of happy mischievous clowns. The horizontal mother figure measures 5.5 inches long and 2.5 inches tall. This type of figure is not common and much more complex than Margaret's usual animalitos (small animals). Your price $495 ~ Item #ST351. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Mona Teller (Pa-Shawn-Thupa-Wa) is from Isleta Pueblo and has been an active potter since 1972 working with storytellers, corn maidens, Nativities, various figures and polychrome pottery. She was taught to make pottery in the traditional way by her mother, Stella Teller. Mona has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the New Mexico State Fair, and the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial. Her work is included in Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies", Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery", "Storytellers and Other Figurative Pottery" by Douglas Congdon-Martin and "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni" by Hayes and Blom

This storyteller features 5 children and measures 4.25 inches tall. Her work is particularly appreciated for its sense of animation. Your price $195 ~ Item #ST333.

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