2005-17 & 2005-18: Undecorated and Crenellated Rounded-Square Medicine Bowl #1 and #2
This is also the catalog entry for bowl 2005-18. The bowls have a squared-off shape, with rounded corners. These bowls may be similar to the bowls (“na ku yipi”), Alexander Stephens observed holding water and boiled medicine in Hopi kivas in the 1890s (Stephen, 1936:...
2005-14 Shallow Dish with Handles and Bird Design
This is an elegant dish and one of the best examples in the collection of a design that perfectly fits visual space on the pottery it...
2005-06 Small Bowl with Animal Face – Arrow Tongue
This bowl, carefully but casually constructed in the folk art tradition, has a Sikyatki revival design and an animal face with a long, arrow-shaped tongue. Fewkes interprets the arrow tongue as representing lightning, but the meaning, though compelling, seems...
