Tafoya, Camilio - "Rabbits" Seedpot (1991)
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Tafoya, Camilio – “Rabbits” Seedpot (1991)

1.5"w x 1.5"h

$ 400.00

This seedpot by Camilio Tafoya is from 1991. It is fully polished and fully designed.  The seedpot has four realistic rabbits on the sides. The top has a swirling rainbird.  All the designs are etched into the clay and then highlighted with additional clay slips.  The colors are all added from various clay slips.  Camilio was living with Joseph Lonewolf, his son, at the time he made this.  Joseph would give him the clay slips to use for the colors.  The piece is signed on the bottom “Camilio Sunflower”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

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Brand:Tafoya, Camilio "Sunflower" (1902-1995)

This seedpot by Camilio Tafoya is from 1994-5. It is fully polished and fully designed on top.  The seedpot is one with a story, which is typical of much of his later work.  In the center on top is the “storyteller”.  On the sides are the women with their children. In front of them are the warriors. Note the detail in all the figures and the use of various colors of clay slips.  The colors are all added from various clay slips.  Camilio was living with Joseph Lonewolf, his son, at the time he made this.  Joseph would give him the clay slips to use for the colors.  The piece is signed on the bottom “Camilio Sunflower”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.

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Tafoya, Camilio "Sunflower" (1902-1995)

Camilio Tafoya

Camilio "Sunflower" Tafoya (1902-1995) was a son of noted potter Sara Fina Tafoya and Geronimo Tafoya.  He was a brother of Margaret Tafoya and Christina Naranjo.  Two of his children, Grace Medicine Flower and Joseph Lonewolf became renowned potters each working with wonderful scraffito Native designs.  Camilio was married to Agapita Tafoya and made carved pottery in the 1950's and 60's, he worked with both Grace and Joseph on many of his works.  In the 1970's he began to create miniatures pottery first in collaboration with Grace and then later on his own.  His pottery combined stories of the pueblo along with creative and antidotal Pueblo life images and animals scenes.  His pottery can be found in many collections and is displayed at multiple museums worldwide.
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