2012-20 Huge Migration Pot

2012-20 Huge Migration Pot

Rachel Nampeyo, who made this pot, is the granddaughter of Nampeyo of Hano. Rachel’s granddaughter was named after her Rachel Sahmie. It happens that these two Rachels made the two largest pots in this collection. (The Rachel Sahmie jar is 2007-17.) I know of two...
1989-06 Seed Jar

1989-06 Seed Jar

Hopi pot, formed in April 1978 by Rachel Namingha Nampeyo (born 1903; died 1985) and painted by her sister Daisy Hooee Nampeyo (born 1906). The Blairs (1999:197) write that Daisy “…spent much time with her sister Rachel at Polacca. As Rachel’s eyesight began to fail,...