2025-15 Narrow-necked spirit-being jar

2025-15 Narrow-necked spirit-being jar

The neck is 1.125-inches high. This is a graceful but clunky jar with an inventive, engaging design.  Its maker was a brilliant, iconoclastic artist adept in many mediums. Randall Sahmie (1950–2008) was the fourth of eight children of Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo....
2018-03 Gourd-shaped clay rattle

2018-03 Gourd-shaped clay rattle

This is a visually simple and elegant “pot,” and thus is typical of much of Randall’s work. Substantially heavy for its size, I assume the walls of this gourd -shaped rattle are fairly thick.  From what I can see, the only opening (to let out air...
2015-09 Gourd jar

2015-09 Gourd jar

Jar 2015-09 features a narrow waist that almost divides the vessel in two and results in a round ball-shaped top resting on a wide-shouldered bottom. It’s an unusual and dramatic shape. Given the small opening, one supposes that the top and bottom were fabricated...