with frogs, tadpoles, and dragonflies as painted decoration

8 3/4" diameter x 6 3/4" high

excellent condition

circa 1920s-1930s

SOLD

(P0424)

7 1/2" diameter x 6 3/4" high

excellent condition

ex: Gallery 10, Scottsdale, 2000; Private Collection

circa 3rd quarter 20th century

SOLD

(mc2185)

Helen Shupla is renowned for her refined melon jars. While there is a long history of this form in the Pueblos, the melon jars that Helen made achieved a pinnacle in the beauty of the form. Helen did not add clay to form the ribs of the melon; she pushed the clay out from the center, a method in which it is easy to make a mistake and break the continuity of the clay.

She seems to have made more black melon jars than red. As a result, collectors particularly value her red melon jars. Helen died in 1985.

10” diameter x 5” high

excellent condiiton

ex: Private Collection

circa mid-20th century

SOLD

depicting Spiderwoman
39" wide x 67 1/2" long
SOLD
(R0453)

7/8" diameter

sterling silver

circa 1940s-1960s

handmade

SOLD

(j2187)

12" diameter x 9" high

circa 1875

Very good condition with a few hairline cracks (stable) and a small area of restoration along the side of the bottom.. Photos illustrate these. Overall, this jar has normal wear-and-tear, as is expected of its age.

SOLD

(mc2082)

12" wide x 24" long

circa 1900

excellent condition

Ex: Morningstar Gallery, Santa Fe; Private Collection, purchased from Morningstar Gallery in 1987

SOLD

(mc1932)

signed Maria & Santana [Martinez}

black on black with feather design

1943-1954

excellent condition 

SOLD

(p0524)

sterling silver and turquoise

post backs.  These may be changed to hoops or screwbacks if the purchaser desires.

circa 1940s-1950s

excellent condition

SOLD

(j1812b)

5" diameter x 3 1/2" high

excellent condition

ex: purchased from artist at Indian Market, Santa Fe 2004; Private Collection

2004

SOLD

mc1923

fine blue, white, green, and red glass seed beads on tanned buffalo hide. Old trade cloth around the rim of the moccasin tops.

circa 10 1/2" long

excellent condition with small area of bead loss

ex: Bruce Van Landingham; Private Collection

circa 1870s-1880s

SOLD

(mc2064a)

3 1/2" diameter at widest point x 4 1/4" high

natural clay and slip

excellent condition

ex: Made in 1995; Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe; Private Collection.

SOLD

(mc1910)

circa 8" diameter x 5 1/2" high

excellent condition

ex: Collected by Col. James Stevenson in 1884 for the  BAE (Bureau of American Ethnology), part of the Smithsonian; Marcy Burns American Indian Arts, 1999; Private Collection

circa 1884 

SOLD

(p0364)

circa 1900-1920

7" diameter x 5 1/2" high

excellent condition

SOLD

(B0899)

6 5/8" diameter x 4 7/8" high

circa 1870-1880

excellent condition

Ex: Private Collection

(mc1948)

SOLD

circa 13" diameter x 13" high

circa 1890-1910

excellent condition (one small impurity pop visible in the first photo)

SOLD

(P0488)

polychrome jar

circa 1870s

7" d x "6 7/8" h

excellent condition (read below)

ex: old inventory tag: 1215; S. P. Baldwin #6

SOLD

(P0509)

Excellent condition with a few very stable cracks (illustrated)

ex: Mary Hamilton Collection; Robert Bauver Collection; Lyn Fox; Private Collection, 1999. 

circa 1880-1890

SOLD

(mc1952)

7 5/8" diameter x 2 1/2" high

circa 1870-1890

excellent condition with normal wear due to its age

ex: Marcy Burns American Indian Arts; Private Collection, 1997

SOLD

(mc1940)

circa 1900-1920s

18 1/4" diameter x 7 1/4" high

excellent condition 

SOLD

(B971)

4 3/4" diameter x 5 3/4" high

natural clay and slip, one turquoise stone

excellent condition

ex: Private Collection, 1989

SOLD

attributed to Maria and Julian Martinez

9 3/4" diameter x 2 1/2" high

excellent condition

circa 1915

ex: Marti Struever; Private Collection

SOLD

(p0499)

1/16th seed beads in red, two tones of blue, and white, native-tanned hide, sinew

hard soles

circa 10 1/2" long

circa 1875-1880

excellent condition

ex: Private Collection

SOLD

(mc1990)

17 1/2" wide x 18" high

4-ply Germantown wools

circa 1880-1890s

excellent condition

ex: Private Collection by descent

SOLD

(r0461)

14" wide x 28" long

rawhide and paint

circa 1890

excellent condition

ex: Morningstar Gallery, Santa Fe; Private Collection, purchased from Morningstar Gallery in 1987

SOLD

(mc1933)

7/8" diameter

circa 1950s-1960s

intricate silver work and 12 turquoise stones for each earring

screwback but these can be converted to posts if purchaser desires

SOLD

(j2027b)

11 1/2" diameter x 7 1/2" high

circa 1875

very good condition for a jar of this age. extensive wear on the rim from ladle use.

ex: Jonathan Batkin; Marti Struever, 1998; Dwight Lanmon; Private Collection, 2001. Accompanied by a letter from Jonathan Batkin and a letter by Dwight Lanmon with academic references in both letters.

SOLD

(mc1956)

HALLMARKS: 970; SILVER; HECHO EN MEXICO; CROWN; EAGLE 17

1953-

Size 7

Excellent condition

(j2146)

SOLD

made for Native use

14 1/2” d x 18” high

circa 1880-1890s

excellent condition

SOLD

(mc1795)