2017-06 Canteen with winter moon face

Canteens

This canteen carries a magnificent, detailed and unsettling image with a blessing message. While this pot has the bulbous shape of a typical Hopi canteen, Nathan made the bottom flat for ease of display. Judging from the interior of the spout, the raw clay fired a...

2017-05 Three-lug redware canteen

Canteens

Nampeyo frequently formed canteens, but the flat shape, red slip and three-lug configuration of canteen 2017-05 make this an unusual vessel. This form is not a Native shape and is testimony to Nampeyo’s powers of observation and willingness to innovate. The unusual...

2014-15 Large Polik’Mana canteen, Nampeyo design

Canteens, Kachina Design, Polik'Mana

10.0625” front to back (though the “flat” back is not actually flat, so this distance varies). 12.125” from spout to bottom, including the 1.5” spout. 11.3125” wide. This is a huge canteen, only somewhat smaller than the large utility canteen that is also part of this...

2014-12 Canteen in the form of the face of a Hummingbird Katchina

Canteens, Folk Art Bird Design, Kachina Design

The height includes 0.75” height of the stopper in the canteen. The width includes two 1.25” handles, The depth (front to back) measurement includes the 1” nose. Both prehistoric and historic canteens with hooked noses are known. See the cover of Dittert and Plog...

2013-09 Small Incised Canteen

Canteens

This small canteen is Nathan Begaye sui generis, being his unique self. I am not aware of any other Pueblo ceramicist who uses decorating techniques even remotely similar to those used here, though Ed Wade links Begaye’s incising to prehistoric pottery of the eastern...

2013-06 Rain Dancer Canteen

Canteens, Kachina Design

Utilitarian canteens to haul water up the mesa to a home or carry a day’s supply of water into a field were common utilitarian items until the early part of the 20th Century. (See utilitarian ware in the Index of Categories.) The shape of these canteens was generally...