Sioux Redware Pottery by Red Starr Sunface and Bears "83 J-1"

ca 1983

3 1/2" x 3"

Red Starr (1937-2018)

With a highly detailed jar depicting Prayer Feathers, Sunface and Double Bear motifs. 

Signed Red Starr Sioux "83 J-1"

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Elmer Red Starr (also known as Red Starr or Red Starr “Elk”) was a prominent Sioux (Lakota) potter (1937–2018).

• Born: 1937 into the Sioux Nation (some sources specify Wisconsin).
• Died: 2018.
• He was a full-blooded Native American artist who married Harriet Tafoya of Santa Clara Pueblo (New Mexico).
• He learned traditional Pueblo pottery techniques (hand-coiling, polishing, and firing) from his wife in the 1970s–1980s and became an active potter from then onward.
  
  

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Red Starr is known for creating high-quality Santa Clara-style blackware pottery with his own distinctive Sioux-inspired elements:

• Intricate incised (sgraffito) designs featuring animals (buffalo, deer, birds), feathers, bear paws, warriors, and traditional motifs.
• Highly polished surfaces.
• Miniature pots and wedding vases are especially collectible.
• He signed his work as “Red Starr” with an arrow, the word “Sioux”, and a date/number.