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Indian Arts and Crafts - Joe Wilcox Indian Den
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| The talent of the Native American's work and variety is extensive. We carry Alabaster carvings, artifact replicas, Dreamcatchers, folk art chickens, Navajo Kachinas, Pottery, Sandpaintings, Storytellers, Zuni fetishes, and Taos Drums. Many people often start a collection of their favorite type of work, such as fetishes and Kachinas. There is much history and meaning behind many of these works of art. |
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Southwest Alabaster Carvings
These collector sculptures are carved by hand using native alabaster from the Southwest. A traditionally favorite stone results in detailed sculptures polished to a high luster. Colors can vary from natural earth tones in reddish, orange, green and brown hues. Each piece is unique and authentically Native American made. |
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Native American Artifacts
These authentic Native American made artifacts are reproductions of tools and weapons used by Native Americans 100-200 years ago. Faithfully reproduced from old drawings and photographs, these symbols of a now vanishing culture, showcase the unique talents of the Navajo craftsman. |
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Dream Catchers
An old Plains Indian legend says that dream catchers were hung in lodges and teepees to assure peaceful dreams. The good dreams knowing the way, slip through the webbing and slide down the soft feather to the sleeper. The bad dreams become entangled in the web and melt away at the first light of day. Small dream catchers were hung on the cradleboards so that infants would only have good dreams. Hang one in your home or lodge and have only...Happy Dreams! |
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Zuni Fetishes
Zuni Fetishes are Native American carvings made from a variety of stones and are often thought of as a talisman or charm with powers greater than the object itself would naturally possess. Southwest Zunis have long carried interesting or unusual charm stones believing they bring good fortune, power or protection. |
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Navajo Folk Art
Hand carved Navajo folk art expresses how they view their world and the people, animals, and spirits in it. Colorful and whimsical, each piece is unique and different from the hands of true Native American craftsmen. |
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Kachinas
Kachina dolls are carved to represent men who dance in costume, paint and masks representing Kachina spirits. The essence of animate and inanimate objects of great benefit to the Hopi, Kachinas can bring fertility to crops, animals and man, cure diseases and punish transgressions. Many carvers today are of the Navajo nation. |
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Native American Jemez Pottery
These beautiful, authentic Jemez made pottery pieces feature traditional symbols in muted earth tones. Usually unglazed, some pieces accent with glazed red. This unique piece depicts a bas-relief pueblo village around the neck of the vase. Each piece is signed by the artist. Jemez is located in New Mexico.
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Native American Navajo Pottery
These beautiful, authentic Navajo pottery pieces feature earth and sky colors with exquisitely etched designs of feathers, clouds and birds. Exterior is glazed to a matte glow. Representing a modern style with traditional elements. Navajo artist signs each pot with census number. |
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Indian Sand Paintings
Navajo people believe the universe to be delicately balanced. When man disrupts the balance causing illness or disaster, only a medicine man must restore it by healing the offender with chants, herbs, prayers, songs and sand paintings. |
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Storytellers
The time-honored Indian Pueblo pottery tradition of telling stories of and working with clay has merged into a modern art form of Storyteller pottery dolls. Clay effigies are as ancient as the Anasazi. In 1964 Helen Cordero of Cochiti pueblo created her first storyteller to honor her grandfathers stories of their heritage and traditions. |
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Taos Drums
We carry both frame drums and Sioux drums. Sioux Drums are hand painted on one side and plain on the other. Made from whole log or pine frames. Drumheads are made from cow, deer, elk or goat hides of the highest quality. Handcrafted by native craftsmen from the Taos Pueblo from natural materials over a one-year period of time, these drums resonant with the rhythms of life. Each drum has a soft-hide covered wooden beater. |
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