Polik'Mana, Tile
This collection contains about a dozen versions of the Polik’Mana, from a tile (2014-10) and a tray (2017-04) by Nampeyo, to modern tiles (cf 2017-03), canteens, vases, a corn meal bowl, and even an image painted on cloth but posing as a tile (2016-02). The format of...
Folk Art Bird Design
Jar is 6.5625” h X 7.5625” wide without lid or handles. The lid is 2.1875” high and 4.25″ wide with a 3.1875” interior ring. Since as early as 1300 CE, when coal-fired Jeddito ware was widely traded, potters at Hopi have been good at marketing. After Thomas...
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This is a well-crafted bowl by a well-known artist (1888-1978) whose lineage is difficult to translate into American standard ancestry, and who thus remains a bit of a mystery. The collection contains three other pots by Lena: a large, faded and repaired bowl...
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This is an extraordinarily imperfect pot, with 12 pop outs, a hole in its base, uneven polishing and a couple of dark smudges from its outdoor firing. Nevertheless, this is a unique and historically-important vessel. It is also large, sensuously-shaped, and...
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This collection contains one of the earliest pots made by Les (1994-09), which seems quite traditional in both form and design. His work grows from his Tewa-Hopi and Zuni heritage, but as his career evolved both the forms of his clay vessels and his decoration of them...
