Art, Hand Colored Prints, Pair, Bureau of Ethnology, 21st Annual Report, Vintage, 1242 Size:N/S affiliation: Mexico

affiliation: Mexico

This remarkable reproduction of a Hopi Kachina Girl Vase was hand-crafted in clay by renowned reproduction pottery artist Tonya Lamb

this little footed box features intricate stampwork to the sides and lid

and is steeped in deep nostalgia that he felt all his life for the vanishing culture of the American Indian and the old west

Art, Hand Colored Prints, Pair, Bureau of Ethnology, 21st Annual Report, Vintage, 1242 Size:N/S affiliation: MexicoAN AMAZING PIECE OF NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY American anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes was assigned by the Bureau of American Ethnology to compile a report on the Hopi people, and he believed Hopi art would be a valuable means of studying the symbolism of the tribe. He asked their best artists to draw pictures of the kachinas spirits they believed in, and heliotype prints like these were made to accompany his report. They'd be a beautiful addition to