There are pots in this collection that are spectacular because of the complexity of their design (cf 1999-10). Seedjar 2020-19 is spectacular because of its simplicity of form. I also respond to its form because, for me, it recalls Nampeyo, whose name can be...
After Nampeyo became functionally blind around 1920 and could no longer paint, she began to add more tactile decorations to the pottery she continued to form (Kramer, 1996:123, 153). Generally such decorations were pressed into the wet clay to give the impression of...
