Tafoya, Sally – Bowl with Carved Avanyu

4"w x 2"h

$ 125.00

Sally Tafoya (b 1958) began making pottery in the 1980s.  She is a granddaughter of Rosita Velarde and Flora Naranjo, a daughter of Victoria Gutierrez and a sister of Eugene Gutierrez, Effie Garcia, Julie Gutierrez, and Ethel Yazza.  This bowl is coil built, carved and stone polished.  The Bowl has a water serpent or avanyu encircling the top of the piece.  It is very deeply carved and note the outline of the design in the black-on-black around the edges.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Sally Tafoya.”