2007-17 Huge Olla with Eagle Tail Design and Swags
This huge Hopi-Tewa polychrome jar has a decorated rim and an eagle-tail design modified by the addition of elegant red swags between the curvilinear “feathers.” The pot is accurate both in size and in decoration to an “Old Lady” Nampeyo pot given on March 1, 1907 to...
2007-15 Low Bowl with Abstract Hopi Peacocks
The bowl, which features two bird designs separated by panels of abstract decoration, is perfectly shaped and unusually low. As a result, the decoration forms a strongly horizontal band, which forces the viewer’s eye to sweep along. At first glance, the decorations...
2007-09 Elegant Redware Jar with Eagle-Tail Design
The clay body is made of a hard-to-work yellow clay called sikyatska, which, when fired, gives the pot an unusual orange-brown color. The pot has an extremely smooth finish and the black “eagle-feather” design is outlined in white (kaolin) clay. The pot was modeled...
