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This seedpot has four square red designs set at an angle so that one point the square is cut off by the circular mouth of the jar. Set into each red design, and reflecting its overall shape, is a house-like image outlined and drawn in black paint. The overall red...
Eagle Tail Design
The design is a reproduction of the cover image of the catalog Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas Keam Collection, by Wade and McChesney (1981). The cover image, in turn, is the linear projection of the design on two Polacca Polychrome Style D Revival pots...
Eagle Tail Design
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...
Folk Art Bird Design
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...
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...
