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Storyteller

Maker Helen Cordero (1915 - 1994)
Date1964
Place madeCochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, United States, North America
MediumCeramic, slip
Dimensions8 3/8 × 2 3/4 × 3 15/16 in. (21.3 × 7 × 10 cm)
ClassificationsOriginal Art
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.53.41
Object numberA.1979.53.41
DescriptionHand-built, pinched and coil-built, slip coated in off-white; burnished; painted with black "guaco," ground fired. Seated with two children in lap, two on shoulder, one on neck. Male, wears squash blossom necklace, shirt with dot design. Sides dark from firing. // First storyteller made. - A. Girard.
On View
On view
Woman with Child
Helen Cordero
1958 - 1963
Storyteller
Helen Cordero
1965 - 1967
Pot
Laurencita Herrera
c. 1960
Figure
Felipa Trujillo
c. 1960
Female Figure
Anita Lowden
c. 1960
Bowl
Lucy M. Lewis
c. 1960
Bowl
c. 1960
St. Acacius
Manuel Vigil
c. 1960
Ferris Wheel
Vigil Family
c. 1960
Pot
Artist unrecorded
ca 1982, donor
Hat, Model
Artist unrecorded
c. 1960