Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design
Shallow disk with “Bird Hanging from Sky Band” design, by Rachel Sahmie Nampeyo. This is a recent version of the Old Sikyatki design used by the “Old Lady” on her bowl, 1993-04. Using 1993-04 as a model, in 2005 Rachel produced a more elaborate version of...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design, White-Slip Ware, White-slipped, Nampeyo
Hopi white-slipped bowl with three-color polychrome Sikyatki abstract-avian image, tadpoles, and sky band by Nampeyo, ca.1895-1905 CE. The first photograph shows Rick Dillingham holding the bowl. Seen siting by itself without any historical or visual context, bowl...
Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design
Hopi bowl, Sikyatki design elements, 1920s, unsigned. According to Eleanor and her brother (as told to Margaret Kilgore, the seller), this pot was collected in the 1920s by Emry Kopta, an Arizona sculptor, and given as a gift to Miss Hendrickson. Miss Hendrickson came...
