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Mohave Frog, Elmer Gates

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Ceramics Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Mohave Frog, Elmer Gates
SOLD
140.00USD+ (29.40) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Oct 20 @ 10:07UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Mohave Frog by Elmer Gates. Red on buff, frog effigy smoking a cigarette, signed Elmer Gates. 5.75" x7" x 4.5". Generally, Mojave men were not potters. Elmer Gates, who was born in 1929 and lived in Poston, Arizona on the Fort Mohave Reservation, was an exception. He had learned to make pottery from his aunt. He then continued studying all styles of southwestern pottery and working with various techniques. He sold his work at the Colorado River Indian Tribal Museum in the 1970s. Gates was so confident in his chosen profession that he taught a number of young artists of Mojave and Maricopa tribes, as well as non-natives, including Santa Fe ceramicist Rick Dillingham. City: Poston State: Arizona Date: c. 1970's HWAC# 49354