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18” x 24” Image Size - White Border - No Matting
Held securely in the arms of a cherished young pueblo girl is a well-worn and well-loved Santo Domingo storage jar from the early 1900's. Strengthened with rawhide thongs used to lessen the risk of breaking, such beautiful pieces of pottery have been utilized by the pueblo people since prehistoric times to store and cook their precious crops and were therefore an important and necessary item in any pueblo household.
This young girl's dress or manta worn over one shoulder is an article of clothing more often seen as a man's ceremonial kilt, being worn by many kachina impersonators and other male dancers. None the less, these types of kilts are also worn by women in the over-the-shoulder fashion for certain rituals. The designs decorating the sides of the kilt are not only beautiful they are, taken all together, a prayer for rain. The stepped pyramid figures represent clouds; the zigzag lines are lightening, while the series of straight vertical stripes below the clouds symbolizes the rain. Alternating red and white stripes are said to portray the sun shining red through the morning rain, while black and white lines represent the rainbow.
Pottery, textiles, children, and rain…such are the ancient, the sacred, and the cherished ones to the pueblo people.
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18” x 24” Image Size - White Border - No Matting
Held securely in the arms of a cherished young pueblo girl is a well-worn and well-loved Santo Domingo storage jar from the early 1900's. Strengthened with rawhide thongs used to lessen the risk of breaking, such beautiful pieces of pottery have been utilized by the pueblo people since prehistoric times to store and cook their precious crops and were therefore an important and necessary item in any pueblo household.
This young girl's dress or manta worn over one shoulder is an article of clothing more often seen as a man's ceremonial kilt, being worn by many kachina impersonators and other male dancers. None the less, these types of kilts are also worn by women in the over-the-shoulder fashion for certain rituals. The designs decorating the sides of the kilt are not only beautiful they are, taken all together, a prayer for rain. The stepped pyramid figures represent clouds; the zigzag lines are lightening, while the series of straight vertical stripes below the clouds symbolizes the rain. Alternating red and white stripes are said to portray the sun shining red through the morning rain, while black and white lines represent the rainbow.
Pottery, textiles, children, and rain…such are the ancient, the sacred, and the cherished ones to the pueblo people.
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