Effigy
9.6875″ tail-to-head crest Joy Navasie (1919-2012) was a prolific potter of kaolin white-slipped vessels like the bird plate discussed here. However the avian shape of this plate is unusual, perhaps unique. Generally white-slipped pottery seems stark and cold...
White-Slip Ware
Hopi jar, white kaolin slip with Sikyatki design by Joy Navasie, “Frog Woman.” Note that the four quadrants of the pot are painted with two designs, one more densely filling the surface than the other does. The pot was given by Navasie to Naomi Fredericks, the wife of...
