2022-05 Early career pot by Nyla Collateta Nampeyo
This pot is unusual because it is formed from yellow “sikyatska” clay that fires red. It carries a black design. The elements of design are typical of the Sikyatki Revival, are unusually-organized, crisply-drawn, and are well-fitted to the pot’s shape....
2022-02 Plainware wide-shouldered seedpot
This plainware jar is the perfect foil for jar 2020-20, the other recent addition to this collection by Jake Koopee. Whereas jar 2020-20 is packed with design leaving almost no surface on the pot without paint, jar 2022-02 obviously carries no paint (except for the...
2021-16 Very large seedpot with avian and serpent decoration
The most accomplished Pueblo potters today produce work that is both innovative and precise (cf 2018-08 and 2020-02). Categorized as “fine art,” such work can sell for a great deal of money. Seedjar 2021-16 belongs to an earlier era when pueblo pottery was...
2021-15 Irregularly shaped pot: windows looking at storm cloud
This pot has a unique shape and a realistic design crafted to fit that shape.. More than any other pot in the collection, form and design work together to create an explicit visual story. I’m enchanted; Les does not remember making the pot. Les is a...
