collector : First People Pots

2020-02 Jar with Checkerboard Design, Geometric Patterns

Photographs courtesy of King Galleries. Click on image to enlarge. The techniques used to make this jar are traditional: organic […]

Photographs courtesy of King Galleries. Click on image to expand. If big-horned sheep go to heaven, this is what […]

9.6875″ tail-to-head crest Joy Navasie (1919-2012) was a prolific potter of kaolin white-slipped vessels like the bird plate discussed here. […]

Nathan Begaye’s earliest work as a teenager is strikingly well-painted using a variation of an ancient Sikyatki design (2013-01). […]

This tile is much busier and dynamic than most Hopi tiles, yet it retains a sense of serenity and grace. […]

Pot 2019-22 is significant because it helps define the limits of Nampeyo’s legacy. This is the smallest pot in the collection by […]

The head is 3.06″ wide (ear-to-ear) and 2.375″ deep (nose to back). The walls are about 0.5″ thick. The rawhide […]

The statue is 7.125″ deep (front to back) at the base; 6.125″ deep, chest to the lip of the spout. […]

Each handle is about 0.6875″ deep. This collection has a large number of pots by Nampeyo and these are listed […]

Pot 2019-18 is the second corrugated pot in the collection that I believe was formed by Nampeyo and painted by […]