#TBT While researching past SFIM Best of Show winners, I found an article in the 2012 Native Peoples Official Indian Market magazine that listed Edith Tsabetsaye (Zuni) the winner in 1980. Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe) writes: Winning Best of Show means a lot. You dont simply make something and expect to win— you have to keep changing your designs, says Edith Tsabetsaye, who started making her legendary silver needlepoint jewelry in 1958 and has been dubbed a living treasure in the Native art world. I began doing Indian Market in the early 1960s and started out winning red and white ribbons and honorable mentions, recalls Tsabetsaye. I wanted my work to be one of a kind. I did my best, and I gradually worked up to winning Best of Show. She remembers, Back then, Indian Market was not what it is like now. It was first come, first served. We lined up waiting to get a space, and when we did, we set up our things. You never used to enter. That came along in later years. Nowadays she is still creating jewelry, and Collectors come to Zuni to see me, she says. Tsabetsaye lives at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. --- Perry Null Trading had some pictures of her from 2010. https://flickr/photos/perry-null-trading-co/4867106916/in/photostream/ I found a few too. #SFIM14 #IndianMarket #SWAIA #TBT #oldschool #Zuni #NativePeoples
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:51:18 +0000
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