Rachel Sahmie Nampeyo – First People Pots

2018-14 Four panel unfired pot

This jar is a teaching mural of Hopi pottery making. I asked Rachael Sahmie to make an unfired pot for […]

10.0625” front to back (though the “flat” back is not actually flat, so this distance varies). 12.125” from spout to […]

As noted in the discussion of 2010-09 (above), in early May 2010 Rachel and I were talking by phone and […]

“This is a powerful, wise being” Rachel told me when speaking of this bowl. The design was modeled after an […]

Fewkes (1973:44, 54 facing page) excavated a number of bowls at Sikyatki that depict the human hand; this image might […]

This seedpot has four square red designs set at an angle so that one point the square is cut off […]

The design is a reproduction of the cover image of the catalog Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas Keam Collection, by […]

This huge Hopi-Tewa polychrome jar has a decorated rim and an eagle-tail design modified by the addition of elegant red […]

The bowl, which features two bird designs separated by panels of abstract decoration, is perfectly shaped and unusually low. As […]

The clay body is made of a hard-to-work yellow clay called sikyatska, which, when fired, gives the pot an unusual […]