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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 4027419, member: 16407&quot;]OK-- So after a couple sales this weekend, I&#039;ve now recovered $850 on those original purchases!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Gopher: I appreciate your eloquence. Your passion for furniture shines through. I feel similarly about certain pieces of southwestern US Native American pottery I have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was talking with another dealer the other day about the kinds of things I sell. She said that she had had an argument with her 20 yr old daughter about NA items. Some members of the younger generation apparently think that these items were looted, that a white person only owns them by having taken them from unwilling indigenous peoples, and is now trying to profit further off that.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been noted elsewhere on this site, these items were / are usually made for sale to tourists, were ways of creating income, and also simultaneously preserved some traditions that were waning in the &#039;modern&#039; world.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the case of southwestern NA pottery, it&#039;s a cultural expression almost entirely made by women, it&#039;s about as eco-friendly as can possibly be, and it&#039;s entirely hand-made---a refutation of mass-market culture. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those younger people should be all over it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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