2019-21 Runner: pueblo revolt mask

Effigy

The head is 3.06″ wide (ear-to-ear) and 2.375″ deep (nose to back).  The walls are about 0.5″ thick.  The rawhide is about 4.75″ long. The clay used for the mask fired a light brick red.  The glaze appears to be commercial and fired at a high...

2019-20 Hopi maiden statue

Effigy

The statue is 7.125″ deep (front to back) at the base; 6.125″ deep, chest to the lip of the spout. This collection contains a number of Hopi effigy pots (see category listing), but nothing that approaches the form, detail or expressiveness of this work by...

2019-13 Hunky man statue

Effigy

1.3125 deep at hat; 1.5625″ deep at feet. This hunky man is a curious, delightful oddity by two friends, one the teacher of the other, Mark Tahbo and Larson Goldtooth. I do not yet know what each man contributed to the formation of the figure. Larson is the only...

2019-06 Modern Sikyatki bird effigy pot

Effigy

The beak is 2″ long and the tail is 1.5″ long. This is a prehistoric Sikyatki polychrome effigy vessel of a macaw parrot.  Except… …Except it is was made about 30 years ago by a White man.  Other than that — its clay, form, paint,...

2017-02 Small Navajo bear

Effigy, Folk Art Other Animal Design

It seems that large bear bank 2012-15 has given birth to cub 2017-02. My pots do not usually team up together, but these two bears are even cuter together than their considerable individual appeal. While unsigned, this small bear is unmistakably also by Louise Rose...

2017-01 Vase with two Koyemsi effigy faces

Effigy, Kachina Design

Two applied Koyemsi heads grace this otherwise fairly ordinary Nampeyo vase. Decorating pots with raised decoration is unusual but not unknown at Hopi. The two painted designs on this vase are well below Nampeyo’s standards and create some uncertainty about the jar’s...