Width includes 0.625″ high middle leaf. Early in her career as a potter, Iris made rather geometric and unusual pottery with her husband, Wallace Youvella (2017-11) but later focused on making pottery with applied corn motifs (2003-08). She seems to have...
This is a particularly interesting pot because it documents an inovative departure from the standard of Hopi-Tewa pottery. The names “Wallace Youvella” and “Iris Nampey” are inscribed on the bottom, followed by the numbers “4-75.”...
Unpainted Hopi-Tewa pot with appliqué of two ears of corn and an irregular opening and good blushing. Iris Youvella Nampeyo is one of Fannie’s four daughters. Almost all of Iris’s recent productions are variations of this design. The double ear of corn and the fine...
