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Mary
Small
(Kal-La-Tee, "New Indian Basket") is from
Jemez Pueblo and has been an active
potter since the 1950s working with matt polychrome jars, bowls,
wedding vases, storytellers and miniatures. She was taught traditional
pottery making by her mother Perfectita Toya. Mary has won numerous
awards including 1st place at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the
Heard Museum Show, the New Mexico State Fair, the Inter-tribal
ceremonial, and the Indian Arts & Crafts association Show.
Her work is included in "Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi
to Zuni" by Hayes and Blom; Gregory Schaaf's
"Southern Pueblo Pottery 2000 Artist Biographies";
Berger and Schiffer's "Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Pottery".
Both
Mary and her son Scot create wonderful turtles with real turquoise
nuggets on the shells. These are two of Mary's. The one at top,
left, is 2.5 inches tall. Your price $95
- Item #ST191 SOLD
The
turtle at bottom, right, is a hair under 3 inches tall. Your
price $115 - Item #192
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L.
Lupe Lucero
created these great Koshare/Clown storytellers. She is of Laguna/Jemez
heritage and married into the San Filipe Pueblo. She has been
active sine 1971 working with polychrome jars, bowls, figures,
Storytellers, Clowns, Mudheads and lizard effigy pots. Carrie
R. Loretto (her mother) and Dorothy L. Trujillo (her sister)
were her teachers. She has won 1st place at the New Mexico State
Fair and has been published many times including in Hayes and
Blom "Anasazi to Zuni: Southwestern Pottery"; "Storytellers
& Other Figurative Pottery" by Congdon-Martin; Berger
& Schiffer's "Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery"
and Gregory Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery". The
storyteller at top left is filled with joy and feast as the
momma and her six children chow down on one huge watermelon.
It measures 8 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your
price $300 ~ Item #ST356. Definitely
worth a closer look so click here to see an enlargement. SOLD
"Leonora
Lucero is one of the Loretto sisters. Her pottery is made from
Jemez clays and colors. She participated in the popular movement
to create figural pottery in the 1970s and 1980s. She makes
Clown Storytellers with corn husk tassels. Often they are feasting
on watermelons. Leonora gathers natural clay and fires her figures
outdoors in a pit." Dr. Gregory Schaaf
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Aggie
Henderson has been an active potter since 1985 working
with polychrome storytellers. She was taught to make storytellers
by her mother-in-law, Marilyn Ray Henderson. She has won numerous
awards at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New
Mexico and the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This is a wonderful piece, a boy leaning on an Acoma design
pot with a turtle. It measures 3.25 inches tall. Great workmanship,
shape, design and graphic detail.
Your price $130 ~ Item #ST384
Aggie's work has been published in Berger & Schiffer's
"Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery" and Gregory
Schaaf's "Southern Pueblo Pottery".
The piece at left is very much like the piece at top but minus
the turtle. It measures 3 inches tall. Your
price $100 ~ Item #ST385.
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Chrislyn
Fragua is of the Jemez
Corn clan and has been making Sgraffito jars, bowls, storytellers,
figures and nativity scenes since 1988. She was taught traditional
pottery making by her mother Linda M. Lucero Fragua. Her work
is included in Gregory Schaaf’s “Southern Pueblo
Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies” and in Lillian Peaster’s
book “Pueblo Pottery Families”. She is known for
her detailed work with fine lines, solid colors and well executed
sculpting.
The storyteller at left, top measures
3.75 inches tall. Your price $90 ~ Item
#ST378.

The storyteller at right measures
3.75 inches tall. Your price $90 ~ Item
#ST379.

The storyteller at left, bottom,
measures 3.75 inches tall. Your price
$90 ~ Item #ST380.
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