Folk Art Other Animal Design
This form was outdoor fired, which left a dark residue in pathches on the surface of the skillet, a pattern typical of Navajo pottery. After firing, the sausage and eggs appear to have been painted with acrylic paint and then the pan was coated with strained hot...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
This pot is exceptionally thin-walled and therefore light, as if formed on a potter’s wheel. A slight variation in form can be felt inside the bowl, the only visible indication that it was coil-formed. As detailed in the description for jar 2013-01, Nathan only formed...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
While this is an unusual shape for a Hopi pot, it is also simply formed by cutting out a flat square of clay and raising the four corners. The pot fired evenly, without much blushing. The interior design is folk art, not fine art. What would ya call these creatures?...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
Kai (“Keanu Zacarias”), like his sister Munsi, is seven generations removed from Nampeyo through the line of her eldest daughter Annie. This is about as long a run of family potters as I am likely to find in this lifetime. Kai made this pot when he was 13 years old....
Folk Art Other Animal Design, Utility Pots
This pot is of ordinary cornmeal bowl shape and is of a form intended to be hung in a Hopi home to hold an offering to the rising sun. The pot was dung-fired with the rear gold-blushed, which indicates that it was exposed to a higher temperature than the paler front....
Folk Art Other Animal Design
This exocentric little pot is thick-walled and crudely formed. Viewed with the wide end closest to the viewer, the opening is faced slightly to the right and has an uneven lip. From this same perspective, the left side of the vessel has a broader hip and extends...
