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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 1769972, member: 45&quot;]Rain gods are one of the things I collect.&nbsp; When I started buying them in the 1980s/1990s my rule was never to spend more than $20 for one, and when I could find them, that wasn&#039;t an unusual price.&nbsp; Then the book came out, plus eBay, and prices, and interest, increased dramatically. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have seldom seen them for under $100, since.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If yours is poster paint over a cream slip, which it appears to be from the photo, it dates to ca. 1925 or so, but a few Tesuque potters continued to produce them even after interest fell off in the 1930s-1960s.&nbsp; They started making terra-cotta slipped rain gods in the 1960s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few potters (some from other pueblos, especially Jemez) still making rain gods today, but the advent of the storyteller dolls in the 1960s really decreased interest in the souvenir market for the rain gods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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