Utility Pots
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...
Utility Pots
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...
Utility Pots
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: 42, 48, 572-73, 739,743 and 845, among others)....
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...
Utility Pots
This unsigned bowl, made of red clay with the lower half formed in a basket, was made by Vera Pooyouma, Hotevilla (Third Mesa). The top half of the pot was stone polished and the pot has fire clouds. Vera Pooyouma was about 85 years old when she made this pot and was...
Utility Pots
The lower quarter of the pot shows some water damage, but unlike utility pots 1995-02, 1998-01, 1998-05, 1999-14, 2003-09, or 2010-17, the pot does not appear to have been used in a Hopi home. Like utility pots 1987-02 and 2002-05, this pot was likely made for sale to...
