Description

Always one for detail, Cochiti potter Vangie Suina created this wonderfully impressive piece true to form, which features a single, large boot flanked with eighteen children and other unexpected, fun details.  The boot, painted a reddish-brown color with a white base, showcases a square cut out at the top, from which a wooden ladder protrudes.  It is “tied” together along one side with three pieces of white leather, and painted along the edges of cut outs at the top, front and on one side in white geometric patterns.  While the ladder extends upward from the cut out at the top, children, two along the side and three along the front, stick their heads out of the additional cut outs.  Five children res along the top of the boot, one hanging on to their sibling from what appears to be a take on a chimney, while two of the children hold drums and one, a ball.  Along the base of the boot, toward where toes would be, three children sit and three lay on their stomachs, the seated children holding a piece of pottery, book, and blanket from left to right. Two additional children protrude from a flap at the very toe of the boot, and all children are painted in red, white and black.  7″ tall x 4″ wide x 6 1/4″ deep.