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Native American MARLIN & PHYLLIS HEMLOCK Black Pottery and Coral Avanyu Vase
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DETAILS
A vintage Native American pottery jar hand coiled, with sgrafitto, and carved with a single avanyu (water serpent) design with inlaid coral cabochon stone for the eye.
STYLE
Native American | Southwestern
PLACE OF ORIGIN
Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
MAKER
Marlin Hemlock | Phyllis (Tafoya) Hemlock (Santa Clara, Native American, 20th/21st century). Marlin is a Seneca (Iroquois Confederacy, New York, United States/Canada) and he moved to the Santa Clara Pueblo when he married Phyllis.
MARKS
Signed (base): Hemlock / SC.
PERIOD
Late 20th century
DATE
Circa 1980
DIMENSIONS
Width 9 Depth 9 Height 8.75 inches
