Pottery
Gallery 3

Gallery 4

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

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 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.