Pueblo Sunface Pottery
Artist: Dean Haungooah
Size: 2 1/2” H x 3 1/2" W
SKU
deah60
Dean Haungooah builds traditional Pueblo pottery with a contemporary flair. Specializing in smaller pieces, Dean collects his clay and other materials from Santa Clara Pueblo, home of his mother Martha Suazo. Like his mother, Dean is an award-winning potter. On this piece, Dean uses the Sunface as its primary focus, but blends in a multitude of other contemporary and traditional designs.
$475.00
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Pueblo Sunface Pottery is available to buy in increments of 1
Feathers
As a common denominator the feather figures importantly in Native American myth, method, and tribal practice. The feather is a metaphor for flight, a messenger to the spirit world. Feathers are used decoratively, as prayer symbols, and as designs of power. Attached to an arrow, the feather becomes the universal emblem of the hunt, of flight, of finding the mark.
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Pottery
The Navajo are relatively recent arrivals to the Southwest. They probably migrated from the north in the 16th Century thereby becoming a part of the Pueblo IV period. The Navajo have made pottery since their arrival; possibly they brought pottery with them during their southern migration. They made a plain and decorated pottery. The plain being considered the older style?
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Sun
The morning after their arrival the sun rises as a red glare indicating danger. Pg. 206, Flint Way.
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