About 1820

Beaded bag of black cloth, with triangular shaped flap folded over opening, and shoulder sash backed with pink silk. Organic decorative motifs on bag in pink, white, and green beads; sash decorated with ...

About 1900-1920

Rug with elaborate interlocking "Oriental" motifs in red, black, cream, gray, and brown, reciprocating T pattern in border.

Koopee, Jacob

2005

Jake Koopee's extraordinary pottery has earned him some of the top awards in the Native American contemporary art world. Following in the footsteps of his aunt, Dextra Quotskuyva, Koopee takes inspiration ...

About 1850 - 1870

Full-sized Kiowa cradle; buffalo hide beaded in a background of turquoise with stylized floral and triangle designs in colors of red, white, dark green, cobalt, and greasy yellow. Inside of cradle lined ...

1875 - 1900

Rattle in shape of a raven, carrying on its back a reclining figure with bent knees and extended tongue; human figure is joined by his tongue to a frog, which is held in the beak of a kingfisher bird, ...

Tafoya, Margaret

About 1925-1950

Glossy blackware bowl with Avanyu (water serpent) in raised relief within deeply carved recessed band around bowl; tongue of water serpent in shape of zig-zag terminating in arrow. Areas of the recessed ...