Zuni Olla Maidens 2

As part of the museum's Native American Heritage Month Ceramics of the Southwest program, the Zuni Olla Maidens perform dances and songs that pay homage to their female ancestors, who labored to get water for daily sustenance by balancing large olla jars on their heads. The Zuni Olla Maidens are known for the Pottery Dance, in which they move in carefully choreographed steps with delicate painted pottery jars balanced on their heads. The group, led by Loretta Beyuka and Juanita Edaakie, are all related by blood and are citizens of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. This is the second of five presentations they gave that was live webcast and recorded at the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on November 14, 2015.

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I can feel the beauty!! I can see the beauty! and as a potter, it makes me cry to see such love for life! Thank you sisters for your display of perfection! You are what the creator meant for mankind to become, you are the creators pottery! What wonderful vessels that the creator has made!

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I want to know why is that most of the jewelry made by the Zuni has Turquoise on it?
I have several vintage Zuni pieces, for some reason it catches my eye.

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This dance of zuin the pot or water on head and carry water to the family to drink and and dance to sacred water to the house to drink this sacred women dance of zuin and Pueblo and acoma and Navajo dance to for women do for sacred dance from flaming eagle jesse aragon