Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo | First People Pots

2011-31 Small, Simple Pot

Dextra is the most celebrated living Hopi-Tewa potter (Struever, 2001). This pot is perhaps the least impressive pot she ever made. Dextra began making pottery around 1967, when she was about 40 years old (Barsook 1974:36). In an interview with Marti Struever...

2010-21 Wide-Shouldered Seedjar with Stylized Grasshopper Motif

Folk Art Other Animal Design

“This beautiful pot by Dextra is decorated in four quadrants with mythic bird symbols and has a lovely rich blush creating warm hues of color.” –description by Rutt Bridges, original owner. Subsequent investigation indicates that the flying beings on this jar...

1998-03 Wedding Vase

Wedding Vase

Hopi-Tewa wedding vase is signed “Dextra M. Quotskuyva Nampeyo.” According to Marti Struever (2001:120, FN#1), “Until 1998 Dextra’s pottery signature was always painted, evolving from ‘Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo’ in the 1960s and early 1970s to ‘Dextra Quotskuyva’,...

2011-31 Small, Simple Pot

2010-21 Wide-Shouldered Seedjar with Stylized Grasshopper Motif

1998-03 Wedding Vase

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