Posted 7 years ago
Greg2730
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These items were collected by my grandparents I believe prior to 1960 and in the Southwest but no one in the family knows anything more about them. Any help with identifying approximate age and origin would be greatly appreciated.
You have a mix of Mexican, southwest US Native American pieces, and one factory-made Sioux Pottery item from South Dakota.
The carved wood piece in upper right is a chocolate stirrer, called a molinillo.
The pottery basket in upper left is Native American, from Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, dating to the 1930s.
The red vase next to the molinillo is Maricopa, from southern Arizona, dating to the 1940s.
On the bottom row, the first two are Mexican. The large piece is from Tonala, I'm not sure about the bowl with the handle.
The small glazed vase next to the right of the large Mexican piece, appears to be Sioux Pottery, from a factory in South Dakota, ca. 1960s or more recent.
The last one, the tall pitcher with the handle, is an unusual shape, but is probably Isleta, based on the scalloped black bottom border, and would date to the same period as the other Isleta piece.
The two Isleta pieces and (possibly) the Maricopa would be the most desirable items; the Mexican items and the Sioux Pottery, the least.
Agree the basket doesn't belong with the others, to my eye isn't Mexican? Good information on the other pieces, learn something new every day.