2017-06 Canteen with winter moon face

2017-06 Canteen with winter moon face

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...
2015-02 Nude male bowl

2015-02 Nude male bowl

This is an iconoclastic and disturbing pot; the most visceral in the collection. The clay used for bowl 2015-02 is slightly micaceous. This bowl is thick and roughly-formed, as is particularly evident when examining the exterior of the bowl. The bottom is creased and...
2013-10 Polychrome Five-Shard “Pot”

2013-10 Polychrome Five-Shard “Pot”

Although “shard-pot” is probably the best way to describe 2013-10, the entire item as conceived by Nathan is here. This is not the remnant of a larger, broken piece. Rick Dillingham (1952-1994) was a nationally recognized ceramicist, pueblo pottery dealer, author, and...
2013-09 Small Incised Canteen

2013-09 Small Incised Canteen

This small canteen is Nathan Begaye sui generis, being his unique self. I am not aware of any other Pueblo ceramicist who uses decorating techniques even remotely similar to those used here, though Ed Wade links Begaye’s incising to prehistoric pottery of the eastern...