2005-14 Shallow Dish with Handles and Bird Design

Folk Art Bird Design

This is an elegant dish and one of the best examples in the collection of a design that perfectly fits visual space on the pottery it...

2005-05 Small Bowl with Interior Whimsy Bird Design – External Glyphs

Folk Art Bird Design

Hopi pot with simple interior bird design and casual external design. This small, relatively deep pot exemplifies a classic folk a tradition of elegance, humor, skill and a casual style that is both striking in its impact on the viewer and yet does not take itself too...

2002-10 Jar with Three Bird Designs

Folk Art Bird Design

Hopi pot with three different bird designs incorporating geometric shapes, by Emily Shupla Komalestewa. Nampeyo and Lesou’s third child was a son, William, who was born in 1893 and died before he was 30. He married, although his wife also died young, in 1918. They had...

2002-04 Thin (Slip Cast?) Bowl with Sikyatki Birds

Folk Art Bird Design

Small Hopi-Tewa pot with Sikyatki bird design and frets, etc. This pot is carefully designed and painted and is curious: it is both traditional and perhaps radically different from the Sikyatki Revival tradition. Like many Hopi and Hopi-Tewa potters, Cheryl turned to...

2001-04 Enigmatic Symbols Germination Vase

Folk Art Bird Design, Folk Art Other Animal Design

Germination pot, tapered, with complex, symbolic, monochromatic painting, unsigned. This is the most unusual, complex, and enigmatic vessel in the collection. There are two framing lines near the top of the vessel: a thick line and below it a thin line that encircles...

2001-02 Convex Wall Plaque with Elegant “Bird-In-Egg” Design

Folk Art Bird Design

Hopi-Tewa wall plaque (convex), polychrome design with four framing lines, red “half moon” with a geometric bird filling the lower three-quarters of the design, unsigned. ca 1930s (?). I think this is an extraordinary design executed with exceptional skill. For...