1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Folk Art Bird Design, White-slipped, Nampeyo
Pot 2015-05, ca late 1880’s This is an engaging, beautiful jar. For all its beauty, it is also a jar of contradictions; from their interaction would come a renaissance of Hopi pottery. Jar 2015-03 allows us a glimpse into the creative mind of the young Nampeyo....
Effigy, Kitsch, White-Slip Ware, White-slipped, Nampeyo
5.063” h (including about 0.9” of handle above the rim) X 6.0” w X 10.125” long including the two mountain sheep heads, one short-necked head is about 1.75” long the other, longer-necked head is about 2.5” long The form of this bowl is “exocentric,” different than...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Kachina Design, Polik'Mana, Tile, White-slipped, Nampeyo
Form: Since prehistoric times Hopi women formed flat “tiles” of clay that were fired and then ground to use as temper in the formation of pots. Some decorated tiles may have been made for ritual use in the kivas (Wright, 1977:64). In 1875 Thomas Keam opened the first...
Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design
Of the more than five dozen Nampeyo of Hano pots in this collection, two bowls an d a jar stand out as having particularly powerful designs because, without flourish, they display the essence of Nampeyo’s design greatness. Bowl 2014-07 is one of these...
