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LISA HOLT AND HARLAND REANO

Lisa Holt of Cochiti and Harlan Reano of Santo Domingo Pueblo have been potting since 1999 and have won awards at Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum. Howard Sice, our manager, holds this remarkably large work by Lisa and Harlan. It measures 14.5 inches high and just over 15 inches across. $7500.
Their work also graces the cover of the most recent issue of the Museum of New Mexico.


Santa Clara potter, Helen Shupla (1928 - 1985).
  This wonderful piece was created by Helen in October of 1980.   It measures 5 x 10.5 inches.   $4500


This wonderful, intricate piece was created by the award-winning Hopi pottery artist Rondina Huma (b 1947).   5.5 by 7.5 inches.   $3000.


Top view of Horse vessel.


While in Santa Fe, Forrest Naranjo (of Santa Clara) brought down some new work, including the dancer with staff, based upon a Tewa dance. (right)   It is the first of that motif he has made.   It measures 5 inches high and 3.25 across.   $330.

The vessel, at left, with the horse is 4.5 by 5 inches and has a beautiful finish to it.  $450.

These works are created in what is called an open firing, so they are neither red nor black, but fall somewhere in between, depending upon the wind and other firing conditions.


This finely etched pot is by Santa Clara Pueblo Artist Polly Rose Folwell. It is 5.5 x 6 inches in size.   $1100


Jean Sahme, a well known Hopi potter from the Nampeyo family, carved this 9 x 10.5 inch pot.   $3600

Bear Paw Margaret Tafoya, was the matriarch of of Santa Clara Potters.   She learned to pot from her mother, Sara Fina, a master of large black ware and red ware storage jars with a highly-polished finish.   She collaborated with her mother until her death in 1949, and then carried on making black and red wares and polychrome red ware.   She worked in the traditional style. As time went on, she experimented, producing thinner, lighter pots, with increasingly graceful forms.   Her stone polish became more lustrous and mirror-like.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Sara Fina was the first Santa Clara potter to combine the utilitarian form of her large storage jars with simple yet elegant non-functional designs.   She began the use of an imprinted bear paw on her pieces which Margaret has used extensively on storage jars, water jars, and bowls for decades.   The bear paw is a symbol of good luck for Santa Clarans, for the bear always knows where to find water.   It has become the hallmark of Tafoya pottery.

11.5 High x 10.5 wide.   Call for price.





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