Cedar hotsell Mesa "End Of Trail" Vase Signed Suet 1987 5 1/2"

hotsell Hand painted Cedar Mesa Navajo vase depicting the "End of the Trail" figure against a vibrant rainbow sunset over the Pacific Ocean and likely etched in the landscape is the Sierra Madre mountain range. However beautiful this vase is, the weary Native American man on his equally weary horse are a representation of Earle Fraser's 1915 iconic bronze sculpture expressing the suffering and exhaustion of the native peoples driven from their lands. With no where else to go, they are finally pushed to the Pacific Ocean, the end of the trail.

This wonderful thin walled clay vase with interior glaze stands 5 1/3", signed Suet, DIne 1987
Condition is excellent with expected wear to base.