Native American Seed Pot Marcella Yepa Jemez Pueblo Dragonfly Corn Butterfly Art

Southwestern Jemez Pueblo Pottery Artist: Marcella Yepa Hand Made Hand Painted Outside Fired Marcella Yepa makes all her pieces totally by hand and this gorgeous red clay piece showcases some of the beautiful aspects of nature in this seed pot. Piece is 2.5 inches tall x 5 inches in diameter. Artist has signed on the bottom of piece. Below is some historical information about Marcella Yepa and her pottery creating. * Marcella Yepa was born into the Sun Clan on Jemez Pueblo in 1964. She began working with clay at the age of 19, inspired by her aunt, Alvina Yepa who shared all the fundamentals of hand coiling traditional pottery with her. Alvina also taught Marcella which hills provided the best clay and taught her special techniques for constructing her pottery. * Marcella specializes in hand coiled contemporary carved melon pottery. She gathers her clay and other natural pigments from within Jemez Pueblo. In the traditional way, she soaks the clay, grinds it to a powder, cleans the clay, hand mixes, hand coils, shapes, carves the pottery, polishes her pottery with a stone and fires her pottery outdoors using cedar chips.