Arts & Crafts

This Navajo weaving is considered an Eyedazzler, one of the earliest styles of rugs which was influenced by the serape blankets worn in New Mexico.  The design is a solid black border with a repeating, serrated diamond pattern in red,...

This antique Navajo rug is woven from hand-spun wool.  Woven in an old-style Ganado pattern.  We can see that this particular rug was woven pre 1940s because of the whirling logs design, which is no longer used by Native American...

Extra Large, beautiful Klagetoh-style Navajo rug.  This weaving is from the Ganado, Arizona area.  Klagetoh-style rugs are known for their bright red color.  The typical design has a black outside border with strong geometric patterns in natural gray and white...

This Navajo rug is Ganado colors, woven in a Storm Pattern. The Storm Pattern rug is one of the most popular Navajo rug designs and is recognizable by its large central rectangle, four smaller rectangles - one in each corner...

This Navajo weaving is considered an Eyedazzler, one of the earliest styles of rugs which was influenced by the serape blankets worn in New Mexico.  The design is a solid border with a repeating, serrated diamond pattern in gray, black...

This weaving is from the Ganado, Arizona area.  Ganado rugs are identifiable by the dark red color, usually the background, and the black, white and gray geometric design, often with a central diamond or two. Rugs of this style are...

This Navajo rug is woven in a Storm Pattern. The Storm Pattern rug is one of the most popular Navajo rug designs and was popularized at the Crystal Trading Post at the turn of the last century.  The design is...

This weaving style was originally from the Chinle area on the Navajo reservation but is now commonly woven throughout the Navajo Nation.  Chinle rugs are distinguished by their stripes of plain color alternating with bands of repeating geometric designs. A...

This Navajo Yeibichai comes from the Many Farms area in the center of the Navajo Nation.  The Yeibichai rug depicts ceremonies in which human dancers impersonate Yeis (Holy People).  There are usually six dancers, often in profile, sometimes with a...

This pot was purchased from my gallery when Steve Lucas and Les Namingha came for a show.  It was the late 1990s and every pot found a new home that weekend.  Steve and Les also did a fired of pots...

Kachin Mana kachina, by Tony Burton, Old Oraibi, Az. "Lomaeki" dated 1988. The Kachin Mana, or Kachina Maiden, is a Hopi kachina. She often appears in regular kachina dances accompanied by the Long Haired Kachina. Her presence is a prayer...

This Katsin Mana-Corn Maiden Kachina is carved in the revivalist style by Hopi artist Ed Seechoma. The doll features horsehair braids, a collar of colorful feathers and a hanging loop for display.  While this kachina is unsigned, it features the...

Wonderfully detailed Mudhead carving holding a bowl of fruit by artist Tom Fredericks of Kykotsmovi, Third Mesa Hopi.  The base is carved with a pueblo and the Long Hair and Sun kachinas. Tom Fredericks (b. 1973) has been carving since...

Aholi and Eototo carving with Long Hair kachina by artist Tom Fredericks of Kykotsmovi, Third Mesa Hopi. Tom Fredericks (b. 1973) has been carving since the late 1980s. He is from Kykotsmovi at the eastern foot of the Third Mesa....

This is a fabulous, detailed doll by noted Hopi carver, Paul Sewemaenewa. This Supai Kachina  is standing over a hunted buffalo. "The Supai kachina represents the Havasupai people. This kachina appears usually during the water kiva ceremonies or during the...

What a beautiful Santa Clara wedding vase!  While it is unsigned, the piece is in the style of Santa Clara Pueblo work and attributed to that pueblo by the owners who purchased the vase in the 1960s. The clay, slip...

What a beautiful example of traditional Hopi pottery.  Fawn Navasie Garcia formerly known as "Little Fawn" began her pottery career in the 1970s and created this pot in the 1980s.  The family that purchased it directly from her were dear...

This elegant and traditionally fired wedding vase was made by famed Hopi/Tewa potter Joy Navasie, also known as Frog Woman, which is the name she chose to honor her mother Paqua Naha (c. 1890–1955) the original Frog Woman.  This vase...

The Gachupin family from the Jemez Pueblo are known for their beautifully shaped and polished melon style bowls.  This one is just beautiful and in excellent condition.  Melanie Gachupin, Jemez Pueblo b. 1974 created this pot and it has been...

This is brightly colored, authentic Navajo Germantown rug.   This beautiful rug is tightly woven, using commercially dyed wool, and features an added wool fringe on the two ends and whip-stitched sides.  Germantown rugs are one exception to the "no...

This small, round Tarahamura basket is a nice example of double-twilled weaving.  The Tarahamura people are indigenous to the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. Woven of yucca leaves and stems.DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: TarahamuraSize:  3 1/2" high x 3 3/4" diameterMaterials:...

This vintage Pima coiled basket is a beautiful, radiating fret design. Extremely well woven. Pima baskets are typically sewn with willow (light color) and devil's claw (black) over a base of split cattail reeds. DETAILSArtist: UnknownTribal Affiliation: PimaSize: 14 3/4"...

This basket is an example of the traditional geometric designs used by the Wounaan and Embera Indians in their baskets.  They are also known for their intricate pictorial designs. The Wounaan and Embera Indians inhabit one of the world’s last...