NAVAJO
Lorraine Williams
Lorraine Williams has been making pottery in the traditional Navajo method with unique designs since 1980. She was featured, along with other famous women potters, in Susan Petersons book Pottery by American Indian Women/ The Legacy of Generations. As a result of this book, an exhibit showcasing pottery by these famous women, which included works by Lorraine, recently toured leading museums across the United States. Lorraine was also invited to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate traditional pottery making. She has also won awards at the prestigious Santa Fe and Heard Museum Indian Markets. |
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Yei Vase |
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40139 Size -8" dia. x 10" ht. Price - $975 |
Lorraine Williams
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Bear Claw Vase |
Seed Jar |
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Item - # 49138 Size -3 1/2" dia. x 3"ht. Price - $185 |
Item - # 49118 Size -3 1/2" dia. x 2 1/2" ht Price - 185 |
Item - # 49102 Size -3 1/2" dia. x 4 1/4"ht. Price - $195 |
Alice Cling Alice Cling was born around 1946 in a
Hogan at Cow Springs in the Tonalea section of Arizona.
She learned how to make pottery from her mother, Rose Williams, an
innovative Navajo potter. The chemistry of
the clay body and the clay slip, the atmosphere in the fire, and the ash that falls onto
the pots from the juniper wood combine to produce the red-orange-purple-brown-black
blushes that enhance the unusual veneer of Alices pots. She applies a light coating of warm pitch to the
warm pots after firing and burnishes that down to a distinctive low sheen. Usually her
pots are totally undecorated except for the natural pigmentation from the clay and fire. Many traditional Navajo storage jars have a biyo,
a beaded necklace around the shoulder of a vessel made from a textured coil of the
same clay. Alice does not like to use
decoration because her grandmother disapproved of using traditional designs on
non-utilitarian wares. Instead, she allows the beautiful pigmentation to serve as the
decoration, thus forging an original path for the works she creates. Several of Alices jars were chosen by Joan Mondale for use in the vice presidents house in Washington, D.C. Alice has also taken numerous awards at Flagstaff and Santa Fe Indian fairs and powwows. Her work is unmistakably Navajo but has flair that sets it apart from any other Indian pottery being produced today.
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#40171 - 6'' dia. x 7 1/2'' ht.
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Susie Crank Williams Susie Crank Williams has been making pottery in the traditional Navajo method for the last 12 years. She is the daughter of the legendary potter Rose Williams and sister of founder of Navajo contemporary pottery Alice Cling, who is her inspiration and teacher |
Item - # 40120 Size -5 1/4" dia. x 4 3/4"ht. Price - Sold |
Item - # 49152 Size -6 1/2" dia. x 6 1/4" ht. Price - Sold |
Samuel Manymules has been making pottery in the traditional Navajo method for the last 12 years. He was making jewelry when he first starting examining pot shard in the desert and decided to try pottery. Samuel is self taught and has perfected his thin wall and high temperature firing to achieve an esthetic pleasing effect. He took best of show in the pottery class at the HEARD INDIAN MARKET in 2002 |
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- # 49155 Size -7 1/2" diameter x 7 3/4" height Price - $1050 |
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Samuel Manymules
Item - # 49182
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Samuel Manymules Item - # 49164
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Samuel Manymules Item - # 49186
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Kenneth & Irene White
Navajo
Kenneth & Irene White
have been making pottery in the traditional Navajo method with unique designs since the 1980s.
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Yei Vase |
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Item - # 40150 Size -8" dia. x 7 1/4" ht. Price - Sold |
Betty & Elizabeth Manygoats
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Betty Manygoats |
Elizabeth Manygoats |
Betty
Manygoats |
Item - #
40158 Size -6 1/4" dia. x 9"ht. Price - $345 |
Item - # 40153 Size -4" dia. x 6 1/2" ht Price - $125 |
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40146 Size -5 1/4" dia. x 6"ht. Price - Sold |
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- # 40134 Size - 6" diameter x 4 1/2" height Price - $350 |
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