Spangled Billy Goat by Elsie Benally
A Mud Toy by Navajo artist Elsie Benally, featuring a bearded billy goat sequined and spangled with stars. HIs face has a silver painted blaze and red glass bead eyes. The goat’s soft white unspun wool coat is wrapped around his unfired clay body. Circa 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and paper stars, sequins and glass beads, 1 ½ x 3 x 3 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 bearded billy goat sequined and spangled with stars. HIs face has a silver painted blaze and red glass bead eyes. The goat’s soft white unspun wool coat is wrapped around his unfired clay body. Circa 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and paper stars, sequins and glass beads, 1 ½ x 3 x 3 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 bearded billy goat sequined and spangled with stars. HIs face has a silver painted blaze and red glass bead eyes. The goat’s soft white unspun wool coat is wrapped around his unfired clay body. Circa 1980s - 1990s, clay, paint, wool and paper stars, sequins and glass beads, 1 ½ x 3 x 3 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.