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    • Introduction from the Collection Owner
    • Dedication
    • Some Uses of the Collection & Website
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Hopi Social History and the Transition from Polacca to Sikyatki Revival Style Pottery
    • Appendix B: A Tale of Two Pots: Ancient Sikyatki and bowl 1993-04: The Development of Nampeyo’s Style
    • Appendix C: Appreciations of Nampeyo
    • Appendix D: Ranking “Nampeyo” Pots
    • Appendix E: Nampeyo’s signed pottery, a history & theory
    • Appendix F: Nampeyo’s Design Elements
    • Appendix G: Stephen letter to Keam re Ayer collection
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2005-15 Hanging Shallow Dish with Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design

2005-15 Hanging Shallow Dish with Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design

Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design

This is one of the more carefully painted and graceful designs that I have seen by Laura Tomosie. Joy Sandino (now Sandino-Bohlmann) was a student at the University of Northern Arizona in 1964 and purchased several pots by Laura Tomosie at a Native American festival...
1999-15 Cylinder with Monochromatic Thunderbird Design

1999-15 Cylinder with Monochromatic Thunderbird Design

Folk Art Bird Design

Cylinder pot with polychromatic abstract bird design, Laura Tomosie. Laura was the sister of Grace Chapella (1993-01 and 1991-10) but as a potter, she was not as prolific or well known as Grace was. (Rick Dillingham had to borrow a Laura Tomosie pot from Rita Neal to...

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