2020-14 Small broken Beatrice Nampeyo pot

2020-14 Small broken Beatrice Nampeyo pot

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Small, broken, and glued, bowl 2020-14 is the fourth pot by Beatrice Nampeyo in this collection.  Three of them are miniatures. As explained in the catalog entry for pot 2020-13, Beatrice was about 30 years old when she died in 1942.  Not much is known about her life...
2020-13 Small Beatrice Nampeyo pot

2020-13 Small Beatrice Nampeyo pot

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This is a nicely done but –at first glance– is not an extraordinary miniature Tewa-Hopi pot.  What makes it unusual is its maker: Beatrice Nampeyo. Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair published a genealogy chart (1999:262-263) indicating that Annie...
2005-04 Fine-Line Migration Pot

2005-04 Fine-Line Migration Pot

Fine-Line Migration Design

This pot features the Nampeyo family “migration pattern” design. Neither the form of the pot nor the painting is proficient: the edge of the pot is uneven, the painting (particularly the three “feathers” at the ends of the wings) is imprecise. The design is somewhat...
2002-08 Tiny Jar with Simple – Monochromatic Design

2002-08 Tiny Jar with Simple – Monochromatic Design

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Small Hopi-Tewa seed pot with two framing lines (thick and thin) on top and bottom with a simple geometric designs repeated in three panels, signed “Beatrice Nampeyo,” 1930s (?). Beatrice was the youngest daughter of Annie and thus the granddaughter of Nampeyo. She...