Utility Pots
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Commercial slip-cast, kiln-fired bowl (unsigned) with traditional Hopi designs in underglaze pigments (probably decals) and a clear overglaze The seller believed the bowl was hand-decorated by Loretta Silas. Although entirely commercial, it may have been made by Ms....
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This bowl has a sharp delineation between the 16-coil basket in which it was started and the coiled sides built straight off the basket. The incurved rim may suggest this was intended to be used as a small piki bowl. The basket-formed bottom is much thicker than the...
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Although the graceful Sikyatki revival avian design is well painted, it can hardly be seen because of the poor firing that evenly smudged both the front and back of this shallow bowl. The bowl is badly cracked. The crack is more visible from the back than front. The...
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This is also the catalog entry for bowl 2005-18. The bowls have a squared-off shape, with rounded corners. These bowls may be similar to the bowls (“na ku yipi”), Alexander Stephens observed holding water and boiled medicine in Hopi kivas in the 1890s (Stephen, 1936:...
Utility Pots
“Polingaysi,” the Hopi word for butterfly, is etched into the smooth rim of this pot—which was a fact not noticed by the auction house that sold it. The basket into which the clay was pressed had 16 coils; the bottom few coils of clay on the outside of the pot appear...
