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.

At left is a very fine piece by Judy measuring  4 inches tall with 3 children - great detail in the painting and sculpting. Your price $340 ~ Item #ST367. Click here to see an enlargement.

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.

At right is a storyteller with three children measuring 3.5 inches tall - really like the rabbit on her foot. Your price $295 ~ Item #ST368. Please click here to see an enlargement.

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.

The storyteller at left measures 2.25 inches tall with three children and a pussycat on her foot - real cute and as always extremely well done. Your price $165 ~ Item #ST369.

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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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Juanita Yepa is from Jemez Pueblo and we do not have a bio from her. We met her as she was packing up her work at the Govenor's Palace in Santa Fe.

This piece really struck us for its size and complex assortment of children and baskets. There is a touch of poster paint (the green and blue) and some clear acylic on the hair to give it a deeper black color. It's a wonderful peice measuring 11 inches tall and 9 inches wide with nine children. Your cost $525 ~ Item #ST344 Click here to see an enlargement.

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