Alice Homer (1923-1988)
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Homer learned fetish carving with the use of a hand-operated drill
from her father, Leekya Deyuse, in her twenties. She worked in channel
inlay with her husband, Bernard Homer, and began fetish carving
on her own in the 1960s, eventually specializing in bears and wolves.
Her children, Juana Homer, Bernard Homer, Jr., and Patrick Homer
(deceased), have carried on the fetish carving and inlay tradition.
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Alice
Homer (Zuni)
Bear Fetish
Red dolomite
1986
2-3/4" x 5"
KMA 2006.11.01 |
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Alice
Homer (Zuni)
Bear Fetish
Serpentine
c. 1970
2-1/8" x 3-3/8"
KMA 2006.10.01 |
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Links:
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~zunimosaic/76824193/ |
Sources:
McManis, Kent. A Guide to Zuni Fetishes & Carvings. Tucson: Treasure
Chest Books, 1995, p. 16, 25, 39.
McManis, Kent. A Guide to Zuni Fetishes & Carvings, Volume II:
The Materials & the Carvers. Tucson: Treasure Chest Books, 1998,
p. 19.
McManis, Kent and Laurie. Zuni Fetish Carvers of the 1970s: A Bridge
from Past to Present. Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum of the American
Indian, 2006, p. 19, 51,55,56.
McManis, Kent. Zuni Fetishes & Carvings, one-volume, expanded
edition. Tucson: Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2004, p. 83-84, 86.
Rodee, Marian and James Ostler. The Fetish Carvers of Zuni. Albuquerque,
N.Mex.: Zuni, N.Mex.: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of
New Mexico; Pueblo of Zuni Arts and Crafts, 1990, p. 29, 50.
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