2000-07 Canteen with Four-Mountain and Abstract Design

2000-07 Canteen with Four-Mountain and Abstract Design

Canteens

Hopi-Tewa Canteen, polychromatic paint, with complex loosely jointed abstract feather design centered around a “four-mountain direction” element. The design has two framing lines with break lines; unsigned. Although it is impossible to know who made this canteen, the...
1997-04 Shallow Redware Bowl with Lug

1997-04 Shallow Redware Bowl with Lug

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Black on red clay pottery bowl of Hopi-Tewa origin with a pierced lug, rim ticking and an abstract design. Probably shaped by Nampeyo and painted by her daughter Annie. Kramer believes the bowl might have been made as early as ca. 1905. (See below.) In a letter dated...