2024-06 Large bowl with a serious butterfly dancer
The mouth is 9.0-inches wide; the incurved rim is about 0.75-inches wide. This bowl is particularly large, a kachina butterfly dancer with a serious mien is its only interior decoration. The image is striking, giving the pot an impressive visual presence. The bowl...
2024-05 Canteen bank
This collection contains 6 other pots by Nellie, who has a reputation of being an indifferent potter and painter. Occasionally one finds a superior example of her work (cf 2010-04) and pot 2024-05, described here, is one of these well-formed and painted examples....
2024-04 Corn vase
Corn is at the core of Hopi life and no pot in the collection makes this statement more directly than this vase. A few pots in this collection depict painted images of corn (1999-10, 2010-08 and 2012-07) and other plainware pots have repose corn cobs (2006-03,...
