Celestial Beaded Ram by Elsie Benally
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a wooly ram with large curled horns and adorned all about the head and face with colorful beads. The natural sheep’s wool coat ranges in color from white to a golden tan. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and glass beads, 2 x 4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a wooly ram with large curled horns and adorned all about the head and face with colorful beads. The natural sheep’s wool coat ranges in color from white to a golden tan. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and glass beads, 2 x 4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a wooly ram with large curled horns and adorned all about the head and face with colorful beads. The natural sheep’s wool coat ranges in color from white to a golden tan. 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and glass beads, 2 x 4 ½ x 2 ¼ inches.
Mud Toys, sunbaked clay figures decorated with paint, fabric scraps, and wool, are an art form revived by Elsie Benally and Mamie Deschellie in the 1980s in Farmington New Mexico. on the edge of the Navajo Reservation. Elsie’s figures often depict animals wrapped in homespun wool, with sweet whimsical faces, or horses or circus animals ridden by Navajos decked out in fine clothing, and sometimes riding double with children or small animals.