According to Chippewa legend this clay sculpture was
made by a Chippewa god who gave each one a little soul. According to
the Wisconsin Geological Survey they began around fossil remains some
20,000 years ago in what is now Lake Superior. The patterns are
caused by the surroundings and undergrounnd circulating water. The
main ingredients are clay, sand, and silt hardened by lime and iron
oxide.
According to Byron and Dorothy Buckeridge who collected
them for 25 years clay stores energy and used it with the help of
glacier pressure to sculpture itself into beauty and humor. There are
no busts of Shakespeare but clay energy sculptured one. There are no
statutes of Henry VIII & His Six Wives, Jimmy Durante, Jackie at
the Inaugural Ball, Dick Meet Mao but clay energy created them. Clay
as a sculptor often failed just like human sculptors.
The "Nothing Like it in New York!" collection of clay that sculptured
itself 20,000 years ago into beauty and humor unimagined by Picasso and Calder
awaits a modest bid.
NEW
"Hillary",
one of fifty from the Nothing Like this in New York" collection.
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