Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal)
San Ildefonso Pueblo, (1898-1955), 'Firing Pottery,' ink and gouache on paper framed under glass, signed lower right, additionally lightly inscribed with title lower right.
sight: height 12 5/8in, width 17 1/8in
Footnotes:
A nearly identical variation of the present lot is illustrated in Brody, J.J., Indian Painters & White Patrons, 1971, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, p.93, color plate III. Titled 'Pottery Making: Firing' and dated circa 1920-22, that example is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Northern Arizona, catalog C580.

Toning to the paper throughout. Scattered light spots of foxing along the left third. An approximately 3in x 1in area of light yellowish discoloration/soiling in the lower center.