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...

2016-09 Effigy vessel of scarlet macaw

Effigy, Folk Art Bird Design

This is a parrot with a pedigree. Hopi women produced very similar effigies more than 600 years ago. Judging from the size/weight of the effigy, the walls of this vessel are substantial but not thick, although the head may be solid. The blushing is of uniform color...

2014-17 Effigy pot with mountain sheep heads and handle

Effigy, Kitsch

5.063” h (including about 0.9” of handle above the rim) X 6.0” w X 10.125” long including the two mountain sheep heads, one short-necked head is about 1.75” long the other, longer-necked head is about 2.5” long The form of this bowl is “exocentric,” different than...

2013-24 Effigy Portrait of the Collector

Effigy

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 plaid shirt, this effigy appears to depict the owner of this collection of pottery, perhaps demonstrating the size of a Hopi pot that he failed to buy...

2013-14 Small Effigy Vessel with Molded Face

Effigy

This little guy is cute, well-formed, and has a larger brother in this collection. See 2007-16 for the sibling. The catalog entry for the larger effigy pot has a more-detailed discussion of Nampeyo and effigy pots and I will not repeat that discussion here. I...