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Blackware Pot--Bear Paw, Ethel Yazza

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Pottery Start Price:70.00 USD Estimated At:140.00 - 280.00 USD
Blackware Pot--Bear Paw, Ethel Yazza
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This item SOLD at 2017 Dec 03 @ 14:22UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Ethel Yazza blackware pot with deeply incised bear paw and arrow designs. Three lightly etched bear figures, 3" h x 4" diameter. Ethel “Turquoise Rock” Gutierrez-Yazza was born in 1959 into the Santa Clara-Tewa Pueblo. Ethel began working with clay at the age of 5. She was taught all the fundamentals of hand coiling traditional black pottery and using the ancient traditional methods in the process, which were past down from generation to generation. Ethel specializes in stone polished black Santa Clara pottery. She gathers her clumps of clay from within the Santa Clara Pueblo. Then, Ethel soaks the clay to break it down. She mixes the clay with volcanic ash along with other natural elements. She begins the hand coiling methods and hand shapes her pottery. After the pottery is formed she begins carving her pottery with meaningful designs known to her people. Her carvings include serpents, kiva steps, feathers, and water waves which all symbolize important religious beliefs to her people.

Date: c.2000 Location: Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico HWAC # 52114