Nyla Sahmie Nampeyo – First People Pots

2022-05 Early career pot by Nyla Collateta Nampeyo

[Double click photo to enlarge.] This pot is unusual because it is formed from yellow “sikyatska” clay that fires red. […]

3.5” h X 2.375” w —shaker with more-centered shaker holes. 3.438” h X 2.438 w —shaker with less-centered shaker holes. […]

Most Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery is formed of clay that is grey when unfired and turns light yellow to golden […]

This shallow, slightly oval, Hopi-Tewa bowl has two central slits for the attachment of a handle and a polychrome butterfly […]

The extraordinary flat shape of this pot is very difficult to form and (perhaps) as a result, the pot cracked […]

The decoration is a variation of a design developed by Nyla’s great-great grandmother in the early part of the 20th […]

Hopi-Tewa stirrup pot by Nyla Sahmie. Like her sisters Rachel and Jean, I think Nyla is one of the most […]