Peter Jones Iroquois Dancer Sculpture

All of Peter Jones’ sculptures come with names. He called this one, “Iroquois Dancer.” Thus she is holding a traditional Iroquois dance fan. She is 9 ½” tall. Jones makes exceptional faces on his sculptural figures. One of their unusual features is that their eyes follow the viewer and the expressions change depending on the viewpoint.

Peter is currently being featured in a 50 year retrospective exhibition at Colgate University in New York.

Peter Jones (born 1947) is a skilled potter and sculptor from the Beaver Clan, Onondaga Nation, one of the Iroquois tribes.  He lives on the Seneca reservation in western New York State. We have collected his work for over 20 years.

Peter is a recipient of the “Excellence in Iroquois Arts” award presented by the Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave, NY. He studied under Hopi artist Otellie Loloma while attending the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM. His work is in the permanent collections of the Iroquois, Heard, and Everson Museums, and the Museum of Anthropology in Frankfurt, Germany.