Hopi-Tewa bowl with incurved rim and polychromatic design of a stylized kachina.
Like a number of the pots in the collection depicting birds (2006-12 and category list), butterflies (2008-08 and category list), or kachinas (1997-09 and category list), the drawing of the kachina on 2009-09 is part of a folk art tradition. In contrast to many of these other folk images, the design of this kachina is largely symmetric and thus somewhat static, though the asymmetric headdress gives the image a bit of energy. The bottom carries the notation “Hand Made in Arizona” and the date “1941.”
For a larger bowl with a kachina/butterfly image that has the same spirit as 2009-09 and may have been made by the same potter, see 2024-06.
