Zuni Pueblo Pottery

Zuni Pueblo

Pueblo Pottery Maine presents both traditional and contemporary pottery by several Zuni potters including Noreen Simplicio, Randy Nahohai, Gabriel Paloma, Anderson and Avelia Peynetsa, Gaylon Westika, Deldrick and Lorenda Cellicion, and Tara Edaakie. We also carry Zuni fetishes and jewelry.

Anderson Peynetsa of Zuni Pueblo works in collaboration with his wife, Avelis Peynetsa . He has been an active potter since the early 80s. He has exhibited at the Heard Museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Indian Market in Santa Fe and the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos. He is featured in many fine galleries and in all the major pottery publications. He was a student of Jennie Laate and is considered one of the very best contemporary Zuni artists as a painter and potter. (Photo at the 2007 Santa Fe Indian Market)

At top is deer in house motif on a white pot measuring 7 inches tall by 7.5 inches wide with great shape and very well executed graphics. Your price $310 ~ Item #Z81. Click here to see an enlargement.

At left, is a black and white lizard olla featuring 5 lizards in relief that also have a textured skin by using drops of slip that rise above the lizards' bodies. It measures 8 inches tall by 11 inches wide, is made from one piece, and like the olla above, it would retail for $1,200 at any Southwest gallery. Your price $925 ~ Item #ZUN55. Please click here to see an enlargement of this piece.

At right is a very fine deer in house motif pot measuring 6.5 inches tall by 8 inches wide. Beautifully done using black on a rich, deep red. Note the excellent price for such a fine piece. Your price $275 ~ Item #ZUN82.

At left is the style of pot where Anderson began - simple deer in a row, excellent shape and detail. It measures 6 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Your price $230 ~ Item #ZUN78.

Something new from the Peynetsa family are great "lizard on the ball" pieces. A good piece to keep an eye on things when you're not around. This white ball lizard is 4.5 inches tall. Your price $135 ~ Item #ZUN69.

Anderson's work has been published in Gregory Schaaf's book "Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artist Biographies"; in Hayes & Blom's ""Southwestern Pottery:Anasazi to Zuni"; and in Berger & Schiffer's "Pueblo & Navajo Contemporary Pottery", and Lillian Peaster's "Pueblo Pottery Families".

At left is a gold orb lizard also measuring 4.5 inches tall. Your price $135 ~ Item #ZUN72.

In 1986, renowned Native American Art scholar Ralph T. Coe described Anderson Peynetsa as "richly talented". Today he is rated as one of the very best Zuni potters.

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Agnes Peynetsa has been an active Zuni potter since 1984 working with white ware and polychrome jars, cornmeal bowls, frog and lizard effigies, seedpots, canteens and miniatures. She is a very talented lady and sister to Anderson Peynetsa and Priscilla Peynetsa. She was taught to make traditional Zuni pueblo pottery by her siblings and by Jeannie Laate. (Photo at the 2007 Santa Fe Indian Market)

The top piece features 2 frogs and 2 tadpoles. It measures 5 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your price $210 ~ Item #ZUN56.

Agnes has won many awards at well known venues such as the Santa Fe Indian Market and at the "Zuni Show" Museum of Northern Arizona as well as having exhibited at the Heard Museum and at the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.

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Gabriel Paloma of Zuni Pueblo has been an active potter since 1979 working with polychrome jars, corn meal bowls in in mixed media. He was taught art at the university of New Mexico under Herrin Othol and Mary Beahm and learned pottery under the guidance of Zuni potter Jennine Laate while attending Zuni High School. He has won Curator awards, 1st, 2nd and 3rd awards at the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Inter-tribal Ceremonial. Today Gabriel teaches 9th through 12th grade students at Zuni High School through the school's Creative Arts Program - a position he attained after Noreen Simplicio retired. He has taught over 100 students taking them to Pia Mesa to collect clay and teaching them to make their own paint from wild spinach and hematite. His work is in several major private and public collections. This is a wonderful piece & a great find - perfect in every way with a beautiful rosette and concave bottom. It measures 5.5 inches tall by 7.5 inches wide - perfect shape, design, paint - and a prize in anyone's collection. Your price $595 ~ Item #ZUN13 Sale Item ~ Your price $450

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