This is a 1930s olla. Once badly broken, a lady at Jemez repaired this in a most creative fashion. She used leather strips to reinforce the breaks and losses, left the leather with its original color around the rim of the olla (neatly complementing the red underbody of the pot) but she painted the leather in the design areas to match the original design. An unusual but effective fix and the pot is both attractive and interesting. 8” tall x just under 9” wide.
A wonderful Revival piece, a snake coiled into a figure 8 with a tail curl, hand-tooled to create his scales, holding a pendant with four small turquoise stones in his mouth. Old “C” hook clasp. I don’t know if the pendant is original to the brooch but it fits. Unmarked but I’ll guarantee this to be .800 silver or better. Tail to drop, just under 1 ¾,” just over 1 ½” wide. He’s great!
An original oil painting of the Crucifixion, on canvas adhered to thick paper board. Beautifully painted, the artist was professional. I can’t quite make out the name but the signature includes the Italian region’s name “Gazizia.” The painting measures 27 ¼” x 17 ½.”.
Simple, geometric and striking unsigned Acoma olla. Part of its charm, this has the slightly crooked shape of a hand-coiled pot. Typical of old Acoma pieces, the finish has “pops” in the slip on the surface. It measures approximately 8 ½” in both height and diameter.
This is a ch’uspa (in the Aymara language). This pouch woven of alpaca and vicuna fibers, made to hold coca leaves and other important items. A wonderful textile, the colors are natural, the warm brown is vicuna, the red is cochineal and the dark blue, indigo. The tufts at the opening are symbolic “ears” – a reference to the camelids that clothed and fed the Andean community that produced this piece. Even at nearly 200 years old, the cloth is still pliable and soft to the touch. A lovely historic piece. 8” x 9” at the bottom, 7 ½” at the “ears.”
Indian Lore by E. Wendell Lamb & Lawrence W Shultz, signed by 15 Native Americans.
Published in 1964 in Winona lake, Indiana, written for teachers to use to for “…the teaching of Indiana history.” From the preface, “It is the hope of the authors that this volume will find a place in many homes, in libraries, both school and public, and be used in social study classes in junior and senior high schools. Children in the lower grades also will be interested in the many illustrations. We hope it will appeal to adults as well.”
First edition after the original limited edition, red cloth boards, originally gold lettering, and dust jacket. The jacket is in poor condition and the book only fair with toning from the jacket on the facing pages and deterioration of the gold lettering. Interior pages are clean and spine is strong. There is an adhered bookplate and previous owner’s name written in ink on the inside front cover.
Native Americans who signed the book include (sorry, I can’t read all the names):
Circa 1900, perhaps made as a memento of graduation. If you look closely, in each photo, the girl is wearing man’s clothing and the man is wearing old-fashioned women’s clothing. The logos were all carefully cut out and are from hotels, ships, cities and countries – maybe expressing a wish to travel. 8” x 18 ¼” framed.
A gorgeous ivory ware platter with orange luster accents. This is “Cyprus” by Brownfield & Sons, England. This is Arts & Crafts period, between 1870 and the mid 1890s. 14 1/8” x 17 3/8,” in excellent condition.
An old copper and/or brass medal from Mexico. It reads “NE Aqui El Corazon Que Ha Tanto Amado A Los Hombres.”
The other side reads “Dulce Corazon de Jesus A Quien Yo Espero Amar Toda La Vida.”
1 3/8” in diameter. Even with the corrosion, a lovely, used piece.
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