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SKU: 230101-04

Large Laguna Pueblo Pottery Jar by Gladys Stratyu'we Paquin

 1984

10"t x 12"dia

Excellent Condition

Gladys “Sratyu’we” (or Stratyu’we) Paquin (1936–2020) was a prominent Laguna Pueblo potter and a key figure in the late-20th-century revival of traditional Laguna pottery.
She was born in 1936 in Rehoboth, New Mexico, to a Laguna mother (Adeline/Adelene Juan) and a Zuni father (Dwight Paquin). She lived at Laguna Pueblo until about age 9 or 10, then moved to Santa Ana Pueblo to live with her father and stepmother, Clara Paquin. It was at Santa Ana that she received her Native name Sratyu’we (variously spelled Sratyu’we or Stratyu’we), which she later incorporated into her pottery signatures.

After high school she married Andy Padilla and lived for a time at his home at Santa Clara Pueblo before the family moved to California. She spent about 23 years in California, where she raised children (including son Andrew Padilla, who became a potter, and daughter Mary Lent). Her children learned pottery during summers spent with their paternal grandmother at Santa Clara before Gladys herself began the craft.
In 1980, at around age 43–44, she returned to Laguna Pueblo on her own and began making pottery. She largely taught herself through questions to family and friends, trial and error, prayer, and practice—she sometimes credited “The Lord” as her teacher. Early encouragement came from trader Rick Dillingham, who showed her historic Laguna pottery designs in the collection of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe; she adapted many of those ancestral motifs as her own. 

She specialized in traditional hand-coiled polychrome jars (ollas), bowls, and other vessels made from Laguna gray clay. She prepared her own natural slips and paints from local minerals and plants (including Rocky Mountain bee plant for black) and was one of the few contemporary potters who continued traditional outdoor firing with wood and dung/cow chips. Designs often drew from old Laguna pottery sherds and historic forms, with Rain Bird iconography a signature motif (she developed both traditional and personal variations). Santa Ana influences appear in some shapes, and she occasionally blended Laguna and Zuni elements.
She usually signed her work “Gladys Sratyu’we Paquin, Laguna,” “SRATyu’we G. Paquin-SNZ Laguna,” or similar variations (sometimes with the year).

Condition: Excellent

Tribe: Laguna

Year Range: 1975 - 2000

Region: Southwest

Dimensions: 10 in12 in

Category: Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940

Artist: Paquin, Gladys “Stratyu’we” (1936–2020)

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