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1980's Pottery Cache-pot Ceramic Vessel Signed Grace Thorpe Native American
- For your consideration is a very unique American Art Pottery vessel
- Wheel turned small jar, vase or cash-pot
- Redware decorated with glazed and unglazed ribbons and a sgraffito geometrical pattern
- Unusual, blue-gray colored glaze
- Clearly signed by hand on the underside - Grace Thorpe
- Grace Thorpe (1921-2008) was a Word War II veteran and was known as an activist for many causes, including Native rights, veterans’ issues, women’s rights, and environmental protection. Her efforts led the Sac and Fox Nation, her tribal ancestry, to designate its land as a nuclear free zone. Her father, Jim Thorpe was a well-known American football player and Olympic athlete
- Grace's role as an artist is not widely known, but eventually she returned to her family’s homeland in Oklahoma in 1983, where she became involved in tribal affairs and taught herself traditional basket weaving and pottery making as a way to maintain a connection to her heritage. She also served as a tribal district court judge. (references: Wikipedia, Woman in the American History, New York Historical Society web publication, Native Times online publication)
- Very unique and rare, possibly circa 1980-90's, but could be earlier
- All original
- Measurements: Approx. 3.5" tall x 4.25" diameter (across)
- Weighs about 1 lb. 1 oz.
- Condition: Very Good overall. Please see photos below. All original
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