About the Artist

(20th century, Zuni) "Natewa started carving in the early 1950's when he worked for trader Oscar Branson in Albuquerque while at school. Natewa continued with Branson later in Tucson in the early 1960's, but stopped producing fetishes by the end of that decade.

Neil was famous for standing fetishes (especially bears and frogs) as well as bird stringing fetishes for necklaces." A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings by Kent McManis