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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 468628, member: 5833&quot;]Having a weakness for small carved things, before I got captured by cameos, I was collecting these, mainly Zuni, principally by the extended Laate family.&nbsp; I&#039;m not comfortable calling them fetishes as they were not made for spiritual purposes &amp; I do not take care of them as if they were, so I prefer to call them carvings.&nbsp; But of course they are sold as &#039;fetishes&#039; far &amp; wide.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sad to say, &amp; not confined to this segment of the art world, work by deceased masters generally fetches higher prices than that of the living.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have two that are lovely lizard-on-a-rock pieces, Chinese, bought by a Zuni artisan who was never very good, &amp; who etched his own name into the bottoms.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=45]@Taupou[/USER] &amp; [USER=301]@komokwa[/USER]&nbsp; I would like to leave the best of the pieces I have by Pernell &amp; Max(x) Laate to some institution(s) that would actually keep &amp; display them.&nbsp; Is there any such place?&nbsp; Or are galleries the only places where contemporary work can be seen, until it is sold?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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