1998-14 Corn Meal Basket Pot
Hopi corn meal basket/pot, unsigned. Pots like these are used by villagers who circle around dancing kachinas and bless them with corn meal. The seller told me the pot was made in Hano by “Delbert,” a man of about 50 years. Perhaps the maker was Delbert J. Fritz....
1998-05 19th Century Posole Cooking Pot
Hopi Posole Boiling pot made by Olive Dennis (Kykotsmovi, 1813-1875), the great, great, great grandmother of the person who sold the pot in October 1989 to The White Hogan, Scottsdale, Arizona. The pot is well used and cracked. Although these posole pots were common...
1998-01 Large Water Hauling Canteen – Brownware
Utility canteen (late 19th century?) These sorts of canteens, a posole cooking pot (1998-05) and a piki bowl (2010-17 and 1993-05) were the basic cookware in a Hopi kitchen. As is often the case with a wide flat surface, the flat side of this canteen cracked on firing...
1996-04 Worn Sikyatki Revival Stew Bowl – Polychromatic Design
Large, worn polychromatic stew bowl, unsigned, ca 1920. The pot has a shiny look from having been in contact with the fat in cooked meat. (See 1990-03 for an older Polacca ware stew bowl that does not seem to have been...
