Acoma Pueblo Hand Coiled Parrot Pottery

Dolores Lewis (deceased) was born in 1938 into the Acoma Sky City Pueblo. She is one of the daughters of the world renowned late, Lucy M. Lewis. Dolores has been around great pottery artists her whole life, however, her greatest inspiration came down from her mother, Lucy. Dolores was a self taught artisan, she learned the ancient traditional methods of working with clay by carefully observing Lucy construct her beautiful pottery vessels. Dolores chose to continue the long lived tradition of working with pottery, and using the ancient methods passed down to her from her grandmothers because of the importance to keep her peoples traditions alive. Dolores gathers her own natural pigments and  clays from the clay pits within the Acoma Pueblo. She cleans her clay for impurities by hand, then, she hand mixes, hand coils, hand paints, and uses a traditional firing method to add the finishing touch to her wonderful masterpieces which mother earth has blessed her with. The Lewis family keeps the same patterns and does not move to a contemporary style because it is very important to them to keep alive true traditions and designs of the ancient mimbres people alive. Some of these designs which are replicated are the deer with a heartline, lightning bolt pattern, and the many variations of the mimbres patterns. Lucy  was the driving force behind the revival of pottery making as an art in the Pueblo of the Acoma. Dolores is also related to Emma Lewis-Mitchell, Carmel Lewis (sisters), and Drew Lewis (brother). This piece came to us from an estate and was made in 2002

4 1/4" Tall, 6 1/4" Wide.