First People Pots
  • About the Collection
    • Dedication
    • Some Uses of the Collection & Website
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A: Hopi Social History and the Transition from Polacca to Sikyatki Revival Style Pottery
    • Appendix B: A Tale of Two Pots: Ancient Sikyatki and bowl 1993-04: The Development of Nampeyo’s Style
    • Appendix C: Appreciations of Nampeyo
    • Appendix D: Ranking “Nampeyo” Pots
    • Appendix E: Nampeyo’s signed pottery, a history & theory
    • Appendix F: Nampeyo’s Design Elements
  • Works Cited
  • Press
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2016-10 Large bird-image bowl with external design

2016-10 Large bird-image bowl with external design

Folk Art Bird Design

This bowl displays a proud and attentive folk art bird that seems derived from traditional Acoma bird design. Variations of this theme are found on other Hopi pots. (See Folk Art Bird Design in the Category List.) The vessel is flat-bottomed and the sides curve...
1996-02 Monochromatic Bowl with Simple Design

1996-02 Monochromatic Bowl with Simple Design

Uncategorized

Monochromatic pot with flower identification mark of Sadie Adams. For a photograph of Ms. Adams, see Gaede (1977:20). For a jar by Sadie’s daughter, Lorna Lomakema, see...
1995-09 Polychrome Pot

1995-09 Polychrome Pot

Uncategorized

Polychrome pot with worn design; long-stemmed flower identification mark on the bottom, by Irene Shupla...

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Latest Acquisitions

  • 2022-05 Early career pot by Nyla Collateta Nampeyo
  • 2022-04 Tile with maiden balancing a pot on her head
  • 2022-03 Double-lobed container with maidens and corn iconography
  • 2022-02 Plainware wide-shouldered seedpot
  • 2022-01 Duck whistle
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