The designs on this jar are taken directly from a jar Nampeyo made about 1912-1915 and now in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, cat. #5437.4396 (Kramer, 1996:151). Kramer also reproduces a 1913 photograph by Joseph K. Dixon that includes a pot (the...
Hopi pot, bat wing design by James Garcia Nampeyo. Brother of Rayvin Nampeyo (1992-03) and Melda Garcia Nampeyo (2009-02), James was also raised and taught potting by his grandmother Fannie after his mother Leah died in 1974. James was 16 at the time of his Mother’s...
