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....
2025-14:  Figural canteen

2025-14: Figural canteen

The round body is 5.3125” wide. From bellybutton to back is 3.25”. Figural jars from Hopi are rare, but this collection contains two by Nampeyo (2007-16 and 2013-14).  Hopi figural canteens depicting humans are even rarer; I have only seen one other example, also by...
2025-12  Low-profile seedjar

2025-12 Low-profile seedjar

  This jar is a masterwork of form, its width 2.962 times greater than its height.  Creating such a broad expanse of wet clay over a shallow bowl is extraordinary. Of the 600+ jars in this collection, only 2 have greater width-to-height ratios: 2007-11 by Nyla...
2025-11 Fierce creatures bowl

2025-11 Fierce creatures bowl

  Both humorous and frightening, the creatures on this pot create an enormously engaging tableau. Quadrupeds are infrequently depicted on pottery from Hopi, though ironically within the last month I added such a plate to this collection (2025-10).  The other two...