Your pendant looks a lot like my ring by Orville Manygoats, except that mine is marked “MO”.
This is a crop from a Perry Null blog entry:
Mark:
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Don’tcha love Keshi!!!
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I’m in Love with your Hopi birds @OrbitOrange! Still in the bird and Hopi phase of this thread, I’ll add this eagle pin/pendant by Phillip Honanie:
And closer up to see the etching for @Ziacat
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In the midst of beginning a new, dedicated roadrunner thread, I felt these brooches should be contributed here.
While engaged in roadrunner research today, I came upon these as well, thought some may enjoy.
Petroglyph in New Mexico
Petroglyph at the Three Rivers Site
Sityatki Polychrome, AD 1375-1625
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I love the roadrunner pins…fun stuff!
I recognize your Sityatki polychrome bird style, but don’t believe I’ve seen, or recognized it specifically as a roadrunner…so many are parrots!
As you likely know, the Sityatki style, historic abstract representations of heads, beaks, wings, and feathers of birds, was revived by Nampayo in the late 1800’s, early 1900s. A lot of Hopi potters used the designs; Sityatki revival style.
I’m very much attracted to Hopi pottery and have a lot of pieces with Sityatki stylized bird designs…this is one of my favorites bySteve Lucas:
Yes, those are birds…parrots (I think)
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@Bmpdvm, while I may be slightly familiar with Nampayo’s works, I’m not nearly as educated in the realm of pottery as yourself.
Your Steve Lucas is incredible, a truly marvelous piece, thank you for sharing! I do see parrots, it looks to me like their beaks are homing in on a piece of fruit!
I should have cited the photo of the polychrome with the info I found adjoining it. From “A Field Guide To Rock Art Symbols Of The Greater Southwest, Alex Patterson, 1992” it is accompanied by the following, “Sityatki Polychrome, AD 1375-1625. Subject is the hosh-boa, a bird called roadrunner or chaparral cock which figured in an ancient Hopi courting ceremony.” But who can really say, other than the one that crafted it so long ago?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I would be very interested to see your pottery collection if you so chose to share it!
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I’m no pottery expert (I started to say pot expert, but that just didn’t sound right ), but I had dug into it a little bit when I was trying to figure out what kind of pottery my mom’s bowl is - now I know it’s Zia. She bought it in '70 or '71 at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, WY; she didn’t have any information about it, because she didn’t know what to ask at the time. Here’s what I posted up above in the link.
Here’s an interesting article about roadrunners on Zia pottery.
Zia Pueblo | Native American Pottery.
@Ravenscry, love your lil’ roadrunners! @Bmpdvm, gorgeous pottery!
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Beautiful stuff @Ziacat! Very interesting article, thank you for sharing that.
Not to derail this thread into a discussion on pottery, but the wedding vase below I gifted my younger sister for her recent celebration of union. It appears to depict three thunderbirds(?) above the central maze on the one side. It was represented to me to be Tohono O’odham, the Angea family to be specific. I know there are many copycats of their work, and this was purchased from a gallery owner that was gifted the vase by a Tohono O’odham Native. But, similar to @Ziacat, I’m no pot(tery) expert 
. Perhaps @Bmpdvm would be willing to educate me on how I was taken for a fool!
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Awesome, thanks @Ziacat!
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I have more birds flying around on pottery than I thought 
2 small pots by Diane Lewis, Acoma. Hummingbird vase by Joseph Fragua, Jemez. 2 fun birds on this pot by Franklin Tenorio, Santo Domingo. And finally, a bowl by Warren Coriz, an up and coming Santo Domingo artist who tragically passed in 2011.
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All so beautiful! Funny thing, the bird on your last bowl looks a little similar to my “startled” Zia bird.
I love the bird pottery, and since I started this thread I’m fine with it 
We thought we might buy another piece of pottery last year in AZ, but I spent quite a bit on jewelry (we really don’t have space for more anyway).
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my husband can always find room for another pot! 
we are at the point we need to rehome less favorite ones!
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My hubby was so sweet on our last trip. We had totally thought about getting some pottery, but then I fell in love with my Anthony Lovato cuff and he said, “you will enjoy wearing that more than I will enjoy looking at another piece of pottery.” Hugs for him
However in early April we’re going to western CO and eastern UT down to Bluff. We’re going to visit Twin Rocks Trading Post, and I remember they had amazing Navajo baskets, so we may get one of those this year. Unless I go crazy on jewelry again…darn budget
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fun! I hope you find the perfect thing we are going to TX for a family reunion, and I’m lobbying for a run up to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, since we will be halfway there!
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That Steve Lucas piece is a masterwork. He’s amazing, and not easy to find, because his work gets snapped up. Thanks for sharing! 
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I bought a small group of sterling not too long ago and this pin was in the group (not the reason I bought it). But this design looks like the birds on your pottery. No hallmark. Not the best sawing. I thought I might be a Pacific NW design but it now looks like Hopi.
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The pottery posted by @tepowell and @Ziacat demonstrate the prevalence of bird forms across the pueblos. The Zia bird is one of my favorite! Thanks for adding your Warren Coriz jar @tepowell! I have a lot of Kewa pottery and several pieces by his wife, Ione (in her early days), his in-laws Hilda and Arthur Coriz and Hilda’s brother, Robert Tenorio. They were all present at several of Robert’s firings I attended at the pueblo, and fed us wonderful green chili! But I don’t have a piece by Warren; your’s is nice! I remember when he died…Ione, his wife had just had twins!!!
Nice wedding vase @Ravenscry! I’m not familiar with Angea, but piece is classic Tohono O’odham (called Papago until the 1980s). I had acouple pieces years ago, but when I started to focus on Hopi pottery, I sold them and a lot of others pieces.
Your Jemez jar is wonderful @tepowell! I’d love to do a pottery show and tell with you but probably like you I have ALOT (Likely too much for this thread).
And, @chicfarmer, Thanks for your thoughts. Steve Lucas is one of my favorite Hopi potters. His work is so precise and “clean”! He has a lot to live up to with his Nampeyo linage.
So, I’ll add acouple stylized birds on pottery from other pueblos, cultures:
Classic Zuni rainbird design by Randy Nahohai. He and his mother, Josephine, studied and sketched designs of historic Zuni pottery in the SAR (school of American Research), and other museum collections, then began producing pottery with these designs and the Kaipkwa polychrome jar form. These fine line pieces are amazing:
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This cornmeal bowl was build by Randy, but painted by his son, Jaycee, after Randy passed away:
And last, a classic Rainbird design by Gladys Paquin (Laguna):
Sorry
…I got carried away! But, although I rarely buy pottery currently, I still love to share this wonderful art form.
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Absolutely a stylized bird design!!! I love it…Lucky you!
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