Santa Clara Pottery
Native American Santa Clara Pueblo pot,
Ethel “Turquoise Rock” Gutierrez-Yazza was born in 1959 into the Santa Clara Pueblo. Ethel first ventured into the wonders of clay when she was 5 years old. To learn how to hand coil, a fundamental aspect of traditional Santa Clara black pottery, among others passed through generation after generation took a long time. The process was motivated to some degree by the awareness that cultivating these skills could provide a comfortable living in the years to come.
Ethel signs her pottery as: Ethel Yazza, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.
PK17 Santa Clara Ethel Yazza Pot, blackware with deeply incised kiva step design. 2 1/2" x 3"
$205.00
Native American Santa Clara Pueblo pot,
blackware with deeply incised kiva step design. by Ethel Gutierrez Yazza
Ethel “Turquoise Rock” Gutierrez-Yazza was born in 1959 into the Santa Clara Pueblo. Ethel first ventured into the wonders of clay when she was 5 years old. To learn how to hand coil, a fundamental aspect of traditional Santa Clara black pottery, among others passed through generation after generation took a long time. The process was motivated to some degree by the awareness that cultivating these skills could provide a comfortable living in the years to come.
Ethel’s specialty is stone-polished black Santa Clara Pueblo pottery emanating from clay collected within her Santa Clara Pueblo. The clay is soaked to make it workable, then mixed with volcanic ash and sand to give it plasticity and resistance to cracking when dried. Only then is the clay coiled to create the pottery walls.
After the pottery is shaped into the object she is working toward, Ethel deeply carves her work with symbols of special significance to Santa Clara Puebloans. These include serpents, kiva steps, feathers, and ripples of water.
Ethel signs her pottery as: Ethel Yazza, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico.
2.5"H x 3" #PK17
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