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$125.00
Native American Navajo Vase by Lorraine Williams. Pitch-covered with incised design running horizontally around the base and rising diagonally around the throat to the opening lip area.
Lorraine Yazzie was born in 1985 and grew up in the Kayenta - Teec Nos Pos area. Her father was a traditional Navajo medicine man. Her mother was a Navajo herbalist. She learned to do weaving, beadwork and sand paintings, but she never put her hands in clay until after she married Rose Williams’ son, George Williams. (They later were divorced). During her marriage, she learned about creating traditional Navajo pottery from watching Alice and Susie.
Lorraine says she had epilepsy all her life. When she is making pottery, she says her epilepsy doesn't activate. She found that working with clay kept it away.
Lorraine makes tall jars and decorates them with serpentine bands of sgraffito and painted weaving designs. After firing her pots, she applies piñon pine pitch. Her base material is brown-colored Black Mesa clay. Lorraine prefers painted designs on her pots rather than fire clouds that may occur, often used on purpose by Navajo potters who build their fires to produce fire clouds. Preserving the purity of her designs and decorations takes priority.
6 3/4" x 4" #P738
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$600.00
Native American Navajo Alice Cling vase stands 9" tall from a delicate base to an extended cylinder to the opening. The finish is traditional pitch slip that has been buffed to a matte surface.
9” tall #PA95
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$475.00
A Navajo vase of native clay by Suzie Crank. Globe shape at base, rising through a pinched waist to a slender neck with a slight decrease in circumference near the flared opening. 7.5" tall
$950.00
This gorgeous vase is a great example
of excellence in the best of Navajo pottery. Highly polished with twist handles. 12" x 6.5" #PD84
Signed - Susie W Crank, reflecting her heritage as a daughter of renowned Navajo potter, Rose Williams (in which Susie spells the name of her tribe, “Navaho”)
Susie Crank is one of three daughters of Rose Williams, also including Alice Cling and Sue Ann Williams. All three have become phenomenal potters. A third potter with the Williams name is Lorraine (nee Yazzie), who married Rose’s son, George, and later divorced him.
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$170.00
Native American Navajo melon bowl oval vase with yei dancers. - Yeis are an important part of Navajo tradition as reflected on this very nice pot.
5 1/2” x 4” #PE09
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$950.00
Native American pottery | Navajo | Dine | Ida Sahmie Bowl.
Polychrome, featuring Mother Earth and Father Sky, on opposite sides. Ida Sahmie is an interesting potter because she was a Navajo who married a Hopi, despite a long history of intertribal rivalry. She adopted Hopi pottery style, while retaining her Navajo identity as a potter. In this case, the pot was signed as Dine’ in 1999. 3" X 3.5" D #PE25
$190.00
Native American Navajo Bowl with weaving designs by Lorenzo Spencer.
Lorenzo Spencer works in the Cow Springs area of Navajo Nation, Arizona, where pottery makers use local clays and hand-build traditional Navajo bowls and vases. He is married to Susie (Williams) Crank , daughter of Navajo Rose Williams, who is considered the matriarch of Navajo potters.
Susie taught Lorenzo to make Navajo pottery. They work independently, however. Lorenzo’s designs are reflective of Navajo weavings, as shown by this example. He shapes the pot with lighter a shade of clay, adds a darker slip and uses sgraffito to alter the images onhis surfaces. Lorenzo fires naturally and coats the final product with warm pinon pitch before it cools.
6" x 6.5" #PD32
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$160.00
Native American Navajo Bowl by Lorenzo Spencer, with incised kiva design.
Navajo Lorenzo Spencer works in the Cow Springs area of Navajo Nation, Arizona, where pottery makers use local clays and hand-build traditional Navajo bowls and vases. Lorenzo is married to Susie Crank, daughter of the Navajo matriarch of pottery. Rose Williams.
Susie taught Lorenzo to build pots, but Lorenzo and Susie work independently, with each showing stylistic differences. His designs resemble designs used by Navajo weavers. They are lightly formed, with added slip to enable sgraffito to refine the surface textures. Lorenzo’s firing technique is true to Navajo traditions plus a coating of warm pinon pitch cooling.
4.5" x 4.5" #PE34
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$900.00
Native American Navajo Olla by Samuel Manymules, a superb potter whose work is growing in popularity. He has won ribbons at the Santa Fe Indian Market for several years. He shows the continuing evolution of Navajo pottery to more sophisticated forms and more refined finishes.
Samuel Manymules was born in 1963, of the Bitterwater Clan for the Red House Clan. He occasionally refers to himself as “Leumas” Manymules, a spelling of his first name in reverse.
His pottery is now fairly easy to find as a result of his growing renown. The pot shown here was an early work acquired from him by us driving to the reservation to meet him in a parking lot.
Samuel Manymules claims he taught himself how to make pottery by looking at the pottery of Joseph Lonewolf and Christine McHorse in books. His genre is minimalist pottery with an amazing sense of form.
Samuel’s pots are made traditionally, but reflect contemporary design concepts in large bean pots, melon pots, and dough bowls. They usually are polished smooth with a slip of piñon pitch. Iron oxide is often added to give the pot a red-brown tinge.
10" x 6" #Pi76
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See Additional Info for a video of Manymules describing his "Perfect World" bowl. And for an insight into Samuel’s approach to pottery making, in his own words.
$900.00
Native American Navajo Samuel Manymules
olla using diagonal swirls to add visual interest to this perfectly proportioned bowl. Manymules pots have become increasingly popular in recent years, contributed to by his recognition as a perennial winner at Santa Fe Indian Market for several years.
Samuel, who occasionally refers to himself as “Leumas” Manymules in a reversal of the letters in his first name was born in 1963, of the Bitterwater Clan for the Red House Clan of the Navajo (Dine’) Nation.
As this pot demonstrates, Samuel has a command of both traditional techniques and contemporary design concepts. This combination of talents has propelled him to the top tier of Navajo potters.
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In a video at Additional Info, he describes the nature of his "Perfect World" bowl. He also separately describes his approach to potting, in his own words.
$365.00
Manymules is a superb potter whose work is growing in popularity. This work by him differs from much of his other work in the color of the outcome, which appears not to be finished with pinon pitch. It also employs a classic kiva design element absent from his swirled pots.
He demonstrates the continuing movement of Navajo pottery to more sophisticated forms and more refined finishes. His pots have been difficult to find on the Navajo reservation, requiring a lot of travel and research to locate his work. Awards recognizing Samuel’s talent is relieving that difficulty.
Samuel Manymules was born in 1963, of the Bitterwater Clan for the Red House Clan. (He occasionally refers to himself as “Leumas” Manymules, a reversed spelling of Samuel.) He claims to have taught himself potting by looking at the pottery of Joseph Lonewolf and Christine McHorse in books. He creates minimalist pottery which has an appealing sense of form.
5.5" x 6" #Pi95
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See Additional Info for a video of Samuel Manymules explaining his "Perfect World" pot at Indian Market and to read his own words about his approach to potting.
$350.00
Native American Navajo vase with flared lip and white slip with four-color yei dancer images, by Ben Billie. This pristine white vase with etched designs surrounding a pair of impressionistic yei dancers, represents another move by Navajo potters to a more contemporary look. This is the first we've seen of Ben Billie's work.
7.5" x 4.5" #PL34
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$90.00
Native American pottery Navajo small pot with open top and braid-style raised embellishment at the lip, including a spirit break, by Navajo potter of excellence, Sue Williams.
Navajo pottery has evolved into a fine craft with vessels that are well-shaped, beautifully proportioned and finished with smooth slips, but in the tradition of Navajo pitch pots. This sweet work is signed Sue on the base.
Sue is one of three daughters of the matriarch of Navajo pottery, Rose Williams. Her inheritance of potter’s skills and talents is parallel to that of her sisters, Alice Cling and Susie Crank.
2.5" tall x 2.25" #PM13
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$95.00
Native American pottery by Evonda Manygoats, Navajo - This little pot is in the Manygoats tradition of the pictorial pots. Delightful scenes of a weaver at work, a hogan, a wagon, children with sheep surround the the shoulder.
3.5" tall x 3.75" diameter -
$95.00
$1,350.00
Native American Navajo olla, pitch-slipped and polished to a pleasing lustre. A "braid" relief surrounds the upper portion just below the lip.
7" x 6.25" diameter
$225.00
Native American Navajo Susie Wiliams Crank bowl, with wider midsection, incised kiva designs around shoulder, natural fire burns.
Susie Crank learned the technique of pitch pine pottery making from her mother, Rose Williams. (Her sisters, Alice Cling and Sue Williams, also make the pitch pine Navajo style pottery.) Susie Crank’s pots are hand coiled. She burnishes the entire pot with a smooth stone as repeatedly as 10-15 times to give it a beautiful smooth finish. The pottery is then fired in the open air and covered with pine sap sealing it and giving a shimmer to the pot.
Susie Crank is married to Lorenzo Spencer, with whom she has shared some of her knowledge of pitch pot creation.
4" x 7" #P340
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