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Nathan Begaye’s earliest work as a teenager is strikingly well-painted using a variation of an ancient Sikyatki design (2013-01). Thereafter, while his work remained rooted in Native aesthetic, his exceptional creativity produced a dazzling variety of...
Effigy
The statue is 7.125″ deep (front to back) at the base; 6.125″ deep, chest to the lip of the spout. This collection contains a number of Hopi effigy pots (see category listing), but nothing that approaches the form, detail or expressiveness of this work by...
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Nathan Begaye was a brilliant, iconoclastic potter and this pot is representative of his best work. Thirty years after I first saw it and tried to buy it, it finally entered my collection. The form: The walls of this pot are thin, but not as thin as those of 2013-01...
Kachina Design
This plaque is a simplified representation of Tawa, the Hopi sun god. Compared to other Begaye pots, the design is strikingly simple, though powerfully kind. It is easy to smile in response, as when I gaze at a statue of the Buddha. More poignant are Nathan’s...
Canteens
This canteen carries a magnificent, detailed and unsettling image with a blessing message. While this pot has the bulbous shape of a typical Hopi canteen, Nathan made the bottom flat for ease of display. Judging from the interior of the spout, the raw clay fired a...
