Cochiti Storyteller Frog Pottery By Mary Martin Size 6.25\" H x 4.5\" L x 5.875\" For Sale

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Cochiti Storyteller Frog Pottery By Mary Martin

Size 6.25\" H x 4.5\" L x 5.875\" W

Hand Sculped Pottery Frog with 6 Baby Frogs Climbing on her with All of their Mouths Open

Excellent Condition

Mary Martin created whimsical frog storyteller pottery for Cochiti Pueblo, which is a distinctive and collectible style beyond the traditional human figures. These pieces, known for their whimsical nature, have been recognized with awards at art fairs, and some are considered highly collectible. Martin was known for expanding beyond traditional storytelling figures to create unique, animal-based forms. Her frog storytellers are a notable example of this, featuring whimsical designs.

Provenance: From the Len and Toni Wood Private Collection, Laguna Beach, California

Cochiti Pueblo potters are responsible for providing hundreds of pottery figurines as early as 1880 to satisfy a demand for “Indian curios,” a term coined by merchants in Santa Fe for “curiosities.”It is not likely that the Cochiti potters dreamed up the scheme on their own but most likely that the merchants needed something unique, mysterious, ceremonial or perhaps just mockingly funny to sell to the influx of tourists arriving on the AT&SF rail line that made its way to New Mexico in 1880.Even Tesuque Pueblo potters were encouraged to make Rain God figurines, something that did not even exist in their culture but was probably from the fertile mind of Jake Gold, a Santa Fe merchant, and probably based on pre-Columbian figures from Mexico.

These merchants, and there were several of them, are highly responsible for bringing interest to early pueblo pottery—from the finest traditional ceramics to the more obscure figurative style.

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