On 7/8/05, I stopped by Vernida’s home outside of Polacca to ask her if she had an unfired pot that I might purchase to help illustrate the process of creating Hopi pots. She did not have any completed unfired pots, but she did have two undecorated and unfired pots...
Although the painting and paint on this pot are not perfect, the spirit of this pot is fine. Vernida, the daughter of Harold, was trained by her grandmother Fannie. She is not of the corn clan, since her father (but not her mother) connects her to Nampeyo, her great...
