Folk Art Other Animal Design
The inscribed and painted figures represent life around a summer hogon. Betty Manygoats lives in the Shonto-Cow Springs area of Arizona. The spirited folksiness of this design is in sharp contrast to the perfect “fine art” pottery being produced at Hopi. According to...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
Two delicate bands of paint, one white and one tan-red framed with black lines, encircle the neck of this pot. The bottom of the pot is painted tan-red and is separated from the rest of the pot with a band of black with white rectangles. The outdoor dung-firing and...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
This bowl, carefully but casually constructed in the folk art tradition, has a Sikyatki revival design and an animal face with a long, arrow-shaped tongue. Fewkes interprets the arrow tongue as representing lightning, but the meaning, though compelling, seems...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
This unsigned polychromatic bowl has an interior design that shows an animal figure and abstract elements, and an exterior abstract design repeated four times. A bowl with a similar design was entered by Zella Cheeda in the Hopi Craftsman Show, MNA, in 1959 (Sikorski,...
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...
Folk Art Other Animal Design, Jeddito Ware
Jeddito Pot with a flying germination creature framed by a break line, unpainted exterior. Jeddito was the most common ceramic style in the northeastern Arizona area from A.D 1325 to A.D. 1600. The image on 1997-05 is similar to a bowl excavated in 1896 by J. Walter...
