2014-19 Interlocking tiles with katchnas, feathers and inscription

Kachina Design

The tile with the bottom slot is somewhat curved. Since the publication of the Messier book on Hopi and Pueblo Tiles in 2007, there has been an upsurge in collector interest in such pottery. Mark Tahbo invented the technique of painting both sides of rectangular tiles...

2014-16 Salt & pepper shakers with kachinas

Kachina Design

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. These shakers have a graceful and useful form with good-sized fill holes and even blushing. Such utilitarian pieces have been made by the...

2014-15 Large Polik’Mana canteen, Nampeyo design

Canteens, Kachina Design, Polik'Mana

10.0625” front to back (though the “flat” back is not actually flat, so this distance varies). 12.125” from spout to bottom, including the 1.5” spout. 11.3125” wide. This is a huge canteen, only somewhat smaller than the large utility canteen that is also part of this...

2014-12 Canteen in the form of the face of a Hummingbird Katchina

Canteens, Folk Art Bird Design, Kachina Design

The height includes 0.75” height of the stopper in the canteen. The width includes two 1.25” handles, The depth (front to back) measurement includes the 1” nose. Both prehistoric and historic canteens with hooked noses are known. See the cover of Dittert and Plog...

2014-10 Rectangular tile with polychromatic Polik’mana

1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Kachina Design, Polik'Mana

Form: Since prehistoric times Hopi women formed flat “tiles” of clay that were fired and then ground to use as temper in the formation of pots. Some decorated tiles may have been made for ritual use in the kivas (Wright, 1977:64). In 1875 Thomas Keam opened the first...

2013-23 Eight Katchina Seed Jar

Kachina Design

This is a beautifully formed pot of the classic Sikyatki and Nampeyo “flying saucer” shape. Much of the beauty of the piece emerges from a simplicity of form: rising off a base the jar flows outward and upward to a midpoint of maximum width, then curves in to form a...