Miniature Sioux Redware Pottery - Rabbit by Red Starr

ca. 1980
Signed: Red Starr - Sioux - 80J-13

1" x 1"

Very fine redware depicting a Rabbit and Prayer Feathers with inset turquoise at top.

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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.
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.

5224-1569A

2073-23