Tewa Tales of Suspense

Jason Garcia (Okuu Pin)

2021

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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 repeating spiral and line motif in green, white, and pink beads. Sash trimmed in yellow silk, with silk rosettes at forked end of sash. Yarn tassels attached to bottom of bag.
Truncated cone shape, the flat top showing the 4 wide (5/8") strips of bark used as a foundation. The weaving is double, the inside much coarser than the outside.
Awl, snow shoe. A round iron blade with a rounded edge, c. 7/32" diam. 2.5"long. fastened in a round handle with 6 grooves around it. 6.25" long. Used to cut round holes for thongs. Maggie said once it was used to cut grooves like those around the eyes in totems. Chief Kadonaha's.
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 band around Avanyu in matte black.