Kachina Design

2017-03 Large Polik’Mana tile

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 three others are in the form of a “wedding vase” (1998-03, 2010-04 […]

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

The tile with the bottom slot is somewhat curved. Since the publication of the Messier book on Hopi and Pueblo […]

3.5” h X 2.375” w —shaker with more-centered shaker holes. 3.438” h X 2.438 w —shaker with less-centered shaker holes. […]

10.0625” front to back (though the “flat” back is not actually flat, so this distance varies). 12.125” from spout to […]