Kachina Design

Around 1900 the innovation known as Sikyati Revival style Hopi pottery ended the 100+ year dominance of Hopi Polacca pottery […]

2017-07 “Desert Sunrise” Tawa plaque

This plaque is a simplified representation of Tawa, the Hopi sun god. Compared to other Begaye pots, the design is […]

This “tray” is really a painted tile surrounded by a 1.6-inch high wall. If it were only a tile, it […]

This tile is extraordinary by every criterion: size, shape, blushing and painting. The design is instantly recognizable as a Polik’Mana, […]

Two applied Koyemsi heads grace this otherwise fairly ordinary Nampeyo vase. Decorating pots with raised decoration is unusual but not […]

This 5-sided, irregular-shaped tile depicts Saiastasana, The Zuni Rain Priest of the North, Colton kachina #154. Saiastasana appears in the […]

The techniques and materials used to produce this item are innovative, not traditional. The iconography is both innovative and thoroughly […]

This is a unique pairing of clay jar and wooden carving. Their combination is a demonstration of the creative talent […]

Although this collection contains hundreds of Hopi pots, only two others are in the form of a “wedding vase” (1998-03 […]

I am not particularly attracted to Hopi pottery that is carved, a type apparently originating in the 1970s with the […]