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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...
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The maker, Ida Sahmie, is Dine (Navajo), as indicated on the reverse of the tile, and married Andrew Sahmie, son of Priscilla Sahmie. Ida was taught pottery making by her mother-on-law but has developed her own style of painting that reflects her heritage and is not...
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This design is a kaleidoscope of motion and perhaps ritual: two pairs of birds fly in rotation over a central hub. One authority interprets this pattern as having spirtual meaning, but it may be just a design. Once we have examined the pattern closely, we...
