A perfect gift for the couple who appreciates cultural significance and handmade art!

It has been a long time since we have been able to offer traditional Pueblo wedding vases. Unfortunately, they represent a small percentage of the pottery made in the Pueblos today. They are challenging to make and difficult to make well.

Pictorial weaving has always been a favorite style of weaving in our family. Our father had a great collection; he and Mark Winter included several pictorials when compiling the Durango Collection, which is now housed at the Center for Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.

Hopi Pottery is one of the most distinctive styles of all the Pueblo ceramic arts. Generally, the background finish varies from white to a soft brown. The designs are painted with dark brown lines and filled with soft to deeper reddish-brown slips. The heavier and more prominent designs are dark brown.

Growing up in the shadow of a famous family artist has benefits and challenges. And when your grandfather is recognized as the premier artist of a certain style, you realize that, as an artist yourself, you will always be compared to the family patriarch.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was not unusual for Navajo people to be referred to by descriptive names, primarily because English-speaking newcomers to the reservation had not yet mastered the pronunciation of the complex Diné language.

In the Southwest, Pueblo Indian tribes generally experience limited rainfall year-round. Dramatic summer storms can be pretty intense. To take advantage of this, Pueblo people have often placed their cornfields near the mouths of the many arroyos that empty out of the mountains, capturing runoff for their crops.

On December 6, 2004, Navajo pictorial weaver Isabel John and her husband Frank were driving from their home at Many Farms, Arizona, to Farmington, New Mexico, to deliver some paperwork for a new truck they had purchased the day before.

Many of our regular readers will remember Mae Morgan. She is a remarkable woman from near Crown Point on the Navajo Reservation. She began weaving at the age of eight and learned from watching her mother.

In the fall of 1942 and the spring of 1943, Jeff King, a Navajo Medicine Man, gave to Maude Oakes (1903-1990), an American ethnologist, writer, and artist, the legend and the sand paintings of Where the Two Came to Their Father,  a War Ceremonial that was and is, performed over young men who have volunteered or been drafted into the service. World War II was upon us.

Imagine being a native of Nambe Pueblo near Santa Fe who finished a college education and then moved to Washington, D.C., where you established yourself as a financial consultant. It's the story of success, right?

Veloy Vigil was considered more of a Southwest artist than a Native American one, despite his mother descending from Pueblo Indians. His father was Hispanic.

We don’t carry a lot of Native art from Alaska, but occasionally, we are asked to sell examples by collectors. I have always been attracted to the work. Traditional pieces are among the oldest forms of Native American art in the Americas.