Basket Doughbowl
by Edna Romero, Taos/Santa Clara Pueblo
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Edna Romero
Photo by Lana Tupponce
Description: Large Santa Clara Pueblo hand-coiled bowl fired with cottonwood and cedar chips.
About this Award: Awarded to the work that best reflects the long history of pottery in the Southwest.
Jurors’ Comments:
Polly Folwell: Reflects the long history of pottery in the Southwest from the use of the puki in choosing to make your pot out of, to the clay material, the firing with the smoke clouds, and it being a utilitarian based piece. And overall visual simplistic beauty.
Rachel Sahmie: We all agree on that ... unanimous.
Terry DeWald: And in archaeology they teach you that basketry preceded pottery by thousands of years among the Egyprtians and everything, and the integration of all that heritage there really is exactly synonymous to this award. She knew what this award is about!