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Snowflake
Flower (Stephanie Rhoades) of Cochiti
Pueblo, has been an active potter since 1979 working
with Storytellers, Nativities, jars, bowls, owls and figures.
She has won many awards at many venues including the Santa
Fe Indian Market, the New Mexico State Fair,Southwest
Indian Art Show, and the Albuquerque Indian Arts Show.
Snowflake
Flower's Coyote Singers are well known by collectors everywhere
and they are not common.
People who purchase them inevitably come to regard them as
personal totems and they don't part with them. If you've
got Coyote in you then these singers will help keep you close
to your family even if your tune isn't as sweet as the Coyote
Singers. This figure measures 8 inches tall by 6 inches wide
and 6 inches deep. It has three children
and its right leg rises above the ground as it howls and
stamps out the beat.
At
right is a singing mother storyteller with 3 children.
It is 5 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your
price $195~ Item #ST216
At
left is a singing mother storyteller with a very nice life-like
expression on her face -more in keeping with a mother sweetly
singing a lullaby to her six children which laying her arms.
These qualities make it a very special piece. This storyteller
is 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide.Your
price $485 ~ Item #ST210
Her
work is presented at The Indian Craft Shop, U.S. Department
of the Interior, Washington, D.C. and published in "Southwestern
Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni"by Hayes and Blom, Berger and
Schiffer's "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery",
and several other publications.
At
right is an owl storyteller, one of two we requested from
Snowflake and just recently received. This one measures
5.25 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide with 2 chicks at front
and one on back. Your price $225 ~ Item #ST216
Her
Storytellers are known for the "Prayer Feathers" that
adorn each one. Snowflake Flower states, "I began
putting these feathers
on top of each figure in 1983 when my daughter, Patricia
Ann Loretto, went into a coma. I continued to put these
feathers on my figures so the prayers for herrecovery
would be spread through more and more people. Finally,
on December 21, 1999, our prayers were answered when
my daughter woke up after being asleep for 16 years!" from "Southwest
Pottery"
by Dr. Gregory Schaaf.
The storyteller at left is titled
"Owls" and measures 5.5 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your
price $235 ~ Item #ST317
As
Snowflake Flower works she sings songs her mother and
father taught her. She remembers expressions on the faces
of loved ones, their response to a funny story, the pleasure
of a life shared with children. These
are the qualities reflected
in her work.
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