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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...
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I was lucky enough to notice Jake’s work early and began buying his pottery when it was available. Born in 1970, he began making pottery when he was about 20. Two pots, 1995-14, made in January 1992, and 1994-11, made in 1994, were made when he was 22 and 24...
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There are pots in this collection that are spectacular because of the complexity of their design (cf 1999-10). Seedjar 2020-19 is spectacular because of its simplicity of form. I also respond to its form because, for me, it recalls Nampeyo, whose name can be...
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A person with only a passing knowledge of southwestern Native pottery would likely and accurately guess that this pot was made by Alice Cling, so distinctive is her work. Alice’s work is traditional Navajo pottery in form and materials and because it...
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Small, broken, and glued, bowl 2020-14 is the fourth pot by Beatrice Nampeyo in this collection. Three of them are miniatures. As explained in the catalog entry for pot 2020-13, Beatrice was about 30 years old when she died in 1942. Not much is known about her life...
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This is a nicely done but –at first glance– is not an extraordinary miniature Tewa-Hopi pot. What makes it unusual is its maker: Beatrice Nampeyo. Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair published a genealogy chart (1999:262-263) indicating that Annie...
