Medicine Bear-G Pinto

Price: $280.00

Product Height: 12.0000"

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Gerald Pinto's contemporary Navajo pottery combines Japanese and Navajo techniques and influences to produce unique pieces of art. He employs a high temperature firing technique using cedar and other local fuels to attain the distinctive crackled glaze surface on his medicine bears before finishing them using copper wire, bundles of cedar sticks, and Kingman turquoise. Navajo elders revere the Zuni stone carvings of the bear, which is a symbol for protection, strength and power. Gerald encourages owners of his bears to enhance the cedar bundle with artifacts of personal meaning such a feathers, stones or wood. In Navajo and Zuni tradition, the bear effigy is pointed toward the east.

SKU: PINTO018