1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Kachina Design, Polacca Ware, Utility Pots
Hopi Polacca D oblong bowl with handle crackled white finish, red rim, and handle. Dating from about 1890, this is probably a cornmeal pot used by villagers who circle around dancing kachinas in the public plaza of a Hopi/Hopi-Tewa village and bless the kachinas with...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design, Polacca Ware
Polacca ware style D (?) bowl with “Bird Hanging from Sky Band” design and Keresan design elements in the band. Faded red “half moon” element, framing lines with a break line, and a red rim, ca. 1890. This is an important pot in the collection since 1) it...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Kachina Design, Polacca Ware
A Polacca ware D “milk pitcher” with red bottom and rim and Kachina design ca 1890. This is an important pot illustrating a time of transition from Polacca ware for home use to Sikyatki Revival ware for sale. In its construction, crackled white slip and red base and...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Polacca Ware
The pot (circa 1890) is severely cracked (though stabilized) with a classic Polacca crackled white slip. This is the goofiest-designed pot I have ever seen, much less owned. It is not particularly aesthetic in overall design, in part because it is almost random in...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Polacca Ware
Hopi Polacca C pot with Zuni Rain-Bird Design, 1860-1890, circa 1870s probably. Wade and McChesney describe this category of bowls: ———- “Class VIII: Form: Squat globular jar with bulbous midbody, diminutive, rounded, shallow bases lacking kickups...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Polacca Ware
Hopi, Polacca Ware “D” bowl, 1890-1910 According to Wade and McChesney (1980:77), “Style D Polacca Polychrome or Sikyatki Revival Ware (A.D. 1890-1900) appears to have been a commercial ceramic tradition begun in the closing years of the nineteenth century and...
