Toya, Maxine – Pueblo Singer with Polished Cloak and Polychrome Corn Design

Maxine Toya is well known for her figurative pottery.  This is one of her more complex Pueblo singer figures.  It is made from clay her cloak is sculpted and then polished on the edges and over the top of her head.  On the front is a corn plant painted with various colors of clay.  There is pollen coming from out the corn stalk.  The two layers of her cloak are carved and there is exceptional precision in the piece!  The figure was traditionally fired.  It is a creative use of various clays along with both sculptural and painted designs.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Maxine Toya”.