Effigy

2017-02 Small Navajo bear

It seems that large bear bank 2012-15 has given birth to cub 2017-02. My pots do not usually team up […]

Two applied Koyemsi heads grace this otherwise fairly ordinary Nampeyo vase. Decorating pots with raised decoration is unusual but not […]

This is a parrot with a pedigree. Hopi women produced very similar effigies more than 600 years ago. Judging from […]

5.063” h (including about 0.9” of handle above the rim) X 6.0” w X 10.125” long including the two mountain […]

11.313” h X 10.438” w (finger to finger) X 3.563” d (belly-button to back). Slightly pudgy and wearing a mis-buttoned […]

Effigy images are not common in Hopi pottery. Small jar 2013-14 is one of only four in this collection. (2007-16, […]

Bill Beaver fell in love with Navajo pottery when working at Chaco Canyon in the 1940s and Shonto Trading post […]

The form of this pot is unusual. The rim is carefully uneven with the rear rim rising about 0.5” above […]

Except for the red rim typical of Polacca “C” and “D” ware, the jar is monochromatic; the white slip […]

Though unsigned, this figure is apparently by Lowell Cheresposy, Hisi’s son and grandson of Dextra: an impressive lineage. The figure […]