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The design on this bowl is organized into three panels, two narrow and one wider. I had trouble determining this pattern because the design elements seem crowded and frenetic: great energy packed between framing lines. The bottom of the pot carries the penciled number...
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Some Hopi pots are wonderful because of their shape and firing (1993-05, 1995-10 and 2022-02) and some excel because of their design (2014-07, 2014-15 and 2018-08), but this seedjar by Stetson Setella has both wonderful form and beautiful design. Rarely are the...
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Traditional Navajo pottery was utilitarian plainware (cf 1969-07), but with the expansion of roads into the reservation in the 1960’s, Navajo artists began making decorated pots that would appeal to collectors and tourists. Often a a humorous commentary of...
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Width includes 0.625″ high middle leaf. Early in her career as a potter, Iris made rather geometric and unusual pottery with her husband, Wallace Youvella (2017-11) but later focused on making pottery with applied corn motifs (2003-08). She seems to have...
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Width included 0.4375″ high corn cobs. This is the quintessent pot by an iconoclastic Hopi potter. Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White) led an unusual life. Born in the conservative village of Oraibi in 1892, she left her culture to live with local...
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This is a small, unexceptional Hopi-Tewa pot. It is include in this collection because it is the first pot I have owned by Finkle Sahmie, the second child of Priscilla Namingha, and thus brother to Jean, Randall, Andrew, Nyla, Rachael and Bonnie. All the girls became...
