Native American Storytellers
Jemez Pueblo Janeth Fragua pottery koshare storyteller 7" high ~ P398S
$390.00
For this storyteller, Janeth Fragua, a Native American from Jemez Pueblo. has created a koshare with three mini koshares, painted in black, rust and tan colors and holding corn husks.
Janeth was born in 1964, a daughter of Rose Fragua. She has been creating pottery since 1984. Janeth is very prolific at building, painting and firing storytellers, koshares and friendship bowls typically painted in black and rust colors.
Koshares are Pueblo clowns (sometimes called sacred clowns). They are jesters or tricksters in the Kachina religion (practiced by the Pueblo natives of the southwestern United States).
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Koshare is a generic term, as there are a number of these figures in the ritual practice of the Pueblo people. Each has a unique role; belonging to separate Kivas (secret societies or confraternities) and each has a name that differs from one mesa or pueblo to another.
- Excerpted under Creative Commons from Wikipedia.