Kachina Design
Small and shallow Hopi dish with Qoqolo katsina face. Like 2004-02, this pot is of finer quality than the pieces fired outdoors by Juanita in when I visited her (see 1994-10; see 1999-09b for kiln-fired pieces). When we visited Hano in January 2005, Juanita was living...
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Juanita is featured on a videotape about making Hopi pottery, but by the time I met her in 1994, she was already 79 years old and past her artistic prime. For a biography, see Collins (1977:12). This bowl was part of a lot of Juanita pottery sold at a general auction...
Utility Pots
Hopi-Tewa small bowl and ladle,...
Utility Pots
I was introduced to Juanita Healing by Verna Nahee (1983-02), a neighbor in the village of Shomopvi, First Mesa. Verna was getting ready to fire pottery and we were talking; Juanita was kidding Verna about staring her fire so late (more wind). Juanita (age 77) was the...