Artist Bio:
Dean Haungooah is the son
of noted potters Art Cody Haungooah (1943- 1983) and Martha Suazo.
He has continued in his father's style of tightly carved sgraffito
pottery with very detailed imagery.
His father, Art Cody, was
known as Haungooah - Kiowa Sioux of Oklahoma. He shared the name
Haungooah with his grandfather, a legendary 19th century Army
Scout and ledger artist.
Art Cody married Santa Clara
Pueblo Indian Martha Suazo in the late 1960s and moved to the
Pueblo where they collaborated on tiny pottery, she made them
and he carved them. They began winning prizes with their very
first miniatures.
Unfortunately they both died
at young ages, she of an illness, he in a car wreck, in the mid-1980s.