Sioux Native American Brown Pottery Vase by George Kills Pretty Enemy tea bowls Austria in 1928

Austria in 1928

These hand-carved wooden ducks

though I have not seen one more wonderful than this

tweezers and the like

Sioux Native American Brown Pottery Vase by George Kills Pretty Enemy tea bowls Austria in 1928At first I took this small vase with its terrific patterning as an Art Deco piece, but finally deciphered the signature on the bottom to realize it is by George Kills Pretty Enemy (Pte San Hoksila), a member of the Sioux tribe who worked at Sioux Pottery in Rapid City, South Dakota in the 1970s. I think the design executed in low relief and glazed a lighter brown is just terrific, making for an unusual and very special feeling little vase that feels