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The pictures below and in the previous post were taken by the witer at the press preview on Friday night, August 18.The lighting was ambient. The tables were filled with many ribbon winners. The time was limited. The photographs betray these problems. It seemed to me, however, that you who visit this blog would be interested in photos of the winners.Autumn Ray Borts-Medlock, Santa Clara, was the creatorof the deeply incized vase above.Pahponee, Kickapoo and Potawatomi, continued her tradition ofadventurous potting with the blue ribbon winning plate above. Rainey Naha, Hopi, followed in the family footsteps with this First Prize winnerand winner of the Helen Naha Memorial Award (above).
Rebecca Lucario, Acoma, was responsible for the plate above, a winner of a coveted First Prize blue ribbon. Ronda Huma, Hopi, applied her unique painting and design characteristicsto the above bowl, which also won a First Prize blue ribbon.Samuel Manymules, Navajo, showed his delicate sense of balance,symmetry and polish in this tall bowl - a blue ribbon First Prize winner.
Virgil Ortiz, Cochiti, entered this unusual figurative pottery piece and was rewarded with a First Prize blue ribbon.
Covering the 85th Annual SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market 2006 as a writer and blogger was a rare opportunity and a great privilege. I'm excited to be able to share aspects of that coverage with you.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Tribal Artery is the blog about tribal art offered periodically by Aboriginals: Art of the First Person and its allied web sites at Native-JewelryLink, with gorgeous, genuine American Indian necklaces, bracelets, pendants, pins and earrings; ZuniLink, for hundreds of authentic Native American fetish carvings by Zuni , Cochiti, Navajo and San Felipe artists; Tribal Works, offering a wide selection of tribal art from Africa, Aboriginal Australia, the Arctic and Native America, including Navajo folk art, and Native-PotteryLink, home to the finest in contemporary and historic Native American hand-created pottery, storytellers and nativity sets.
