Sioux Pueblo Pottery By Red Starr

ca. 1980 

2.5" H 

Hand Coiled Redware Pottery with an Etched Deer, Feathers and Bird Motif Design

In Very Good Condition

Red Starr (Elmer Red Starr, also known as “Elk”) was a Sioux (Lakota) potter (1937–2018) known for creating pottery in the Santa Clara Pueblo tradition after marrying into the pueblo. Born in 1937 in the Sioux Nation (sources mention South Dakota or Wisconsin; one notes Wounded Knee). He was a full-blooded Native American from the Sioux Nation.
Married Harriet Tafoya of Santa Clara Pueblo. Learned to make pottery from his wife in the 1970s–1980s. He was inspired by family members, including his uncle Charles Blunt Horn.  He worked with traditional Santa Clara clays and coiling methods but often incorporated Sioux designs and motifs.