Vintage Old Santa Clara Nicolasa Naranjo Black Indian Pottery Serpent VASE
- WATER JAR
Signed Nicolasa Santa Clara. Nice sturdy unique piece in very good condition. Estimated to be approximately 50-60 years old.
Nicolasa Naranjo (1907-2002) was a famous Santa Clara Pueblo pottery artist from New Mexico and the daughter of Tomacita and Agapito Naranjo,
granddaughter of Sara Fina Tafoya and a cousin of Margaret Tafoya. In her later career, after 1946, she collaborated with her daughter Roberta.
She has been recognized for her pottery making, mostly blackware.
The piece has a beautiful etching of a black on black avanyu serpent around the base and signed on the bottom.
No chips or cracks. There is minimal finish wear, some in the making as they are
traditionally hand built with coils of native clay, stone burnished and reverse painted.
There are
some scratches so please review the photos, no chips or cracks. Perfect condition inside.
Avanyu is the water serpent deity of the Pueblo tribes of Arizona and New Mexico, often depicted on San Ildefonso and Santa Clara Pueblo pottery. The Avanyu symbolizes the importance of water to indigenous desert cultures and also associated with lightning as shown by the serpent’s tongue.
Nicolasa’s work is in the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Size (approx.)
H = 6-1/8”
W = 5" at widest point
Opening = 2-1/2”
Base = 2-1/2”
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