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    • Introduction from the Collection Owner
    • 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
    • Appendix G: Stephen letter to Keam re Ayer collection
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2005-17 & 2005-18: Undecorated and Crenellated Rounded-Square Medicine Bowl #1 and #2

2005-17 & 2005-18: Undecorated and Crenellated Rounded-Square Medicine Bowl #1 and #2

Utility Pots

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

2005-14 Shallow Dish with Handles and Bird Design

Folk Art 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

2005-06 Small Bowl with Animal Face – Arrow Tongue

Folk Art Other Animal Design

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...
2005-05 Small Bowl with Interior Whimsy Bird Design – External Glyphs

2005-05 Small Bowl with Interior Whimsy Bird Design – External Glyphs

Folk Art Bird Design

Hopi pot with simple interior bird design and casual external design. This small, relatively deep pot exemplifies a classic folk a tradition of elegance, humor, skill and a casual style that is both striking in its impact on the viewer and yet does not take itself too...
2005-02 Early Sikyatki Revival Bowl with Crooks and Clown Faces

2005-02 Early Sikyatki Revival Bowl with Crooks and Clown Faces

White-Slip Ware

This pot has a design that consists of three elements: 1) a black pahos (prayer feather) or sash emerging from a “clown” design, 2) a squared black crook, and 3) a pointed red crook with 12 thin “hair” lines. This three-element design is repeated twice on the pot. The...
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