Kachina Design, Utility Pots
Ladle 2025-01 The handle is 2.125” wide at its widest. The handle is 0.6875” thick. The bowl is 0.25” thick. The bowl is 1.875” deep. Small and worn, this ladle displays an image of the Creator Tawa. This image has a history, both at Hopi and in this collection: In...
Folk Art Butterfly Design, Kachina Design
The mouth is 9.0-inches wide; the incurved rim is about 0.75-inches wide. This bowl is particularly large, a kachina butterfly dancer with a serious mien is its only interior decoration. The image is striking, giving the pot an impressive visual presence. The bowl...
Kachina Design, White-Slip Ware
Hopi pottery is traditionally a women’s craft, so when men began making pottery in the mid-1970’s many of their women folk were not pleased. Katchina carving is a traditional male craft, however, and to placate the women some male artists from First Mesa developed a...
Fine-Line Migration Design, Kachina Design, Tile
The fine-line migration design has become a standardize design used by potters at Hopi, and, at first glance, that is what one’s eye sees here. Randall Sahmie (1950-2008) is best known for his katchia carvings and painting. He was an extraordinarily creative artist...
Canteens, Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
The Polik’Mana imagery on this canteen has been popular with collectors for about 150 years and is still seen on pottery made at Hopi. Indeed, before I bought this canteen, the collection already had over a dozen representations of this Corn Grinding...
