2024-03  Ellipsoid bowl with curvilinear avian design

2024-03 Ellipsoid bowl with curvilinear avian design

The width of the bowl is 9.375 inches. The lowest height is 2.6875 inches.   The large size of this bowl is unusual, as is its shape.  To my eyes its curvilinear design is the most powerful ever developed by Nampeyo, Priscilla’s great grandmother.  Size,...
2011-27 Small Bat Wing Bowl

2011-27 Small Bat Wing Bowl

This small bowl was among the last formed by Priscilla Namingha. It was left unfinished when she died in September 2008 and was painted about seven months later by her daughter, Jean Sahme. Writing on the bottom relates this history: Priscilla Namingha Sept. 2008...
2003-03 Pitcher with Kachina Designs

2003-03 Pitcher with Kachina Designs

Hopi-Tewa pitcher with a simple polychromatic design of Kachina Mana faces and fine blushing from the firing. Priscilla, a daughter of Rachel and thus great-granddaughter of Nampeyo, was 63 years old when she made this pot in 1987. The pot was sold to me by Marsha...
1993-03 Plain Redware Bowl – Incised Band

1993-03 Plain Redware Bowl – Incised Band

Hopi plain redware bowl with incised band by Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo. Although it is reminiscent of the incised redware pots made twenty years ago by Garnet Pavatia (using a can opener), Hopi incised pots are unusual. (Though when made, they are usually plainware.)...