Pot with typical polychromatic Hopi-Tewa design elements and framing lines, one rim chip (1950s?). The pot is unsigned but believed to have been made by Cecelia Lessou. Cecelia, a Puma Indian, was the wife of Wesley Lesso, Nampeyo and Lesso’s fifth child. After...
Jar made ca. 1950. Cecelia (a Pima Indian, born 1906) was the wife of Wesley Lesso, “Old Lady” Nampeyo’s only adult son. Pictures of Cecelia and Wesley are in Barsook (1974) (with a picture of a Cecelia pot). For another pot by Cecelia, see 2003-02. Both Cecelia and...
