Native American Navajo Made Ceramic Fine Etched Horsehair Seed Pot with Buffalo

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Native American Navajo Made Ceramic Fine Etched Horsehair Seed Pot with Buffalo by Hilda Whitegoat

This pot is etched with a single buffalo and framed with traditional Navajo symbols. Painted with the colors of the desert sky this buffalo, once the mainstay of the Plains Indians, reminds us of abundance. The buffalo is also powerful medicine for the Native people. The shape of this pot indicates it would be used for seed storage. In the fall the women would take the seeds for next Spring and place them in these pots and then stack them. These pots would be placed in the corner of their home, stacked so the bottom of one pot would seal the top of the other. This storage technique would save space and keep the rodents from ruining next years' seed crop. This is sure to be a focal point in any home.