Seferina Ortiz is the matriarch of a family of renowned potters, including Virgil Ortiz, Janice Ortiz, and Lisa Holt. This is an unusual storyteller which is in the shape of a shoe or moccasin.  There are fourteen “windows” carved out of the piece and each one had a child in the window!  It is a charming piece and structurally amazing that it survived the firing with all the little windows!  It is slipped with the white Cochiti clay and then painted with wild spinach (black) and red clay slip and fired.  The piece is signed on the inside.  It was traditionally fired and in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  Definitely an exceptional piece by this historically important potter!