Featured Signed Acoma Pot

Discussion in 'Tribal Art' started by kraftblue, Feb 4, 2018.

  1. kraftblue

    kraftblue Well-Known Member

    Not sure if the first initial is an O or a D...

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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Looks like D.
    There is a Pueblo potter named Dorothy Trujillo, but she is Laguna/Jemez, living in Cochiti.

    If you can't find either D. or O. Trujillo from Acoma, you can always ask here:
    http://www.acomaskycity.org/home.html?pgid=1
     
  3. kraftblue

    kraftblue Well-Known Member

  4. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    This is the decorated green-ware sold in the Acoma gas station (and I am sure elsewhere). It is not the traditional hand coiled pottery from Acoma. If done by an Acoma native, it is still legitimately Acoma pottery. It is just not as expensive or collectible as the real deal. It is tourist/mass market pottery for the uninformed.
     
  5. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is. Kokopelli is everywhere in the SW now. It seems to be what people expect, or are expected to expect.;)
     
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  7. Taupou

    Taupou Well-Known Member

    Agree completely. Decorated greenware, and not very well done. You can still see the mold mark on the bottom.

    Trujillo isn't a surname generally associated with Acoma. Gregory Schaaf lists only 3 Acoma potters named Trujillo in Southern Pueblo Pottery, 2000 Artist Biographies.

    Roberta Trujillo is listed as active from 1987 to the present, and as the only one of those 3 making ceramic polychrome bowls and jars. "Ceramic" being the key word, used by Acoma potters to describe painted greenware pottery, as opposed to their "potteries" that are all hand-coiled and made traditionally. Possibly this was made by a son or daughter. I'm not personally familiar with the signature or the potter.
     
  8. kraftblue

    kraftblue Well-Known Member

    Thanks Everyone!
     
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  9. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Here's a D. Trujillo, no first name. That pink is certainly distinctive.
     
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