Native American Navajo Made Ceramic Fine Etched Horsehair Smoke Pot with Horse

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Native American Navajo Made Ceramic Fine Etched Horsehair Smoke Pot with Horse by Hilda Whitegoat

This pot is etched with a single horse and framed with traditional Navajo symbols. Painted with the colors of the desert sky at sunrise. Horses enabled the People to travel further, faster and with less loss of energy so that hunting was more efficient and successful. The shape of this pot indicates that it would have been used as a "smoke pot" or one in which the individual would place dried herbs and light the herbs in order to have them smolder and "smoke" or smudge to cleanse the area and the people of evil spirits. This is sure to be a focal point in any home.