Artist Media Series
Living Artists
Historic
$ 425.00 Original price was: $ 425.00.$ 300.00Current price is: $ 300.00.
Tim Edaakie was a grandson of jewelers Dennis and Nancy Edaakie. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious “Native Artist Fellow” at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2020. He was working to revive traditional Zuni pottery methods, forms, and designs with a focus on the transition from Matsaki to A:shiwi styles. This jar is from 2000. It is coil-built and has a mottled surface. There are heartline deer and dragonflies as the design. The heartline deer are classic to Zuni pottery and dragonflies are prayer messenger. It is signed on the bottom, “T. Edaakie 2000”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
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Tim Edaakie was a grandson of jewelers Dennis and Nancy Edaakie. In 2019 he was awarded the prestigious “Native Artist Fellow” at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2020. He was working to revive traditional Zuni pottery methods, forms, and designs with a focus on the transition from Matsaki to A:shiwi styles. This jar is from 2000. It is coil-built and has a mottled surface. There are heartline deer and dragonflies as the design. The heartline deer are classic to Zuni pottery and dragonflies are prayer messenger. It is signed on the bottom, “T. Edaakie 2000”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.
Artist Media Series
Living Artists
"Keshi! Ho' Tim Edaakie leh'shina, from the Pueblo of Zuni. My maternal clan is Frog and my paternal clan is Coyote. I am 43 years old, and have been a self-employed jeweler for more than 20 years. Even though I explored working with clay during my high school years with my art teacher, Gabe Paloma, I didn't work with it professionally, until 10 years ago. By trial and error, I've been learning how to replicate prehistoric and historic Zuni pottery and designs using traditional natural materials collected on the Zuni reservation: clay, pigments and plants for paints. When weather permits, I also fire traditionally outdoors, using sheep manure and locally-sourced wood for the fire.
"I'm a hiker. As I've explored the land around Zuni, I have discovered numerous prehistoric sites containing potsherds and admired how the ceramic forms of my ancestors evolved to what we see today. By recreating pieces characteristic of various periods, I can demonstrate how Zuni ceramics changed in form and design. I enjoy talking about and sharing the trials and successes of my attempts to create my own pottery, reviving shapes and designs seldom found in the work of other Zuni potters. Each piece becomes a celebration of my cultural heritage and the blessings given to me by my ancestors."