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...
Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
This collection has 19th, 20th and 21st century examples of the Polik’Mana image displayed on this plate (see “Kachina Design” in Category Listing). The elements of design in these renditions are strikingly consistent across time, varying only by...
1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Kachina Design, Polacca Ware, Polik'Mana, White-slipped, Nampeyo
The two rectangular vessels in the collection This “tray” is really a painted tile surrounded by a 1.6-inch high wall. If it were only a tile, it would likely be one of the largest Nampeyo tiles known. One prehistoric example of this tray form is documented. Based on...
Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
This tile is extraordinary by every criterion: size, shape, blushing and painting. The design is instantly recognizable as a Polik’Mana, but it is a modern interpretation of what can be a fairly static traditional design. (See other Polik’Mana renditions under...
Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
The techniques and materials used to produce this item are innovative, not traditional. The iconography is both innovative and thoroughly traditional. The result is both visually and spiritually stunning. However, this art is only incidentally a pottery tile. Upon...
