Storyteller

NameFigure

Maker Helen Cordero (1915 - 1994)

CultureCochiti Pueblo (K’úutìim’é)

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)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1979.53.41

Object numberA.1979.53.41

Collections

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.