2013-17 Small Kaolin Bowl with Eroded Man Eagle Design

Man Eagle Design, White-Slip Ware

This bowl is somewhat deep, has a slight rim coil, and is kaolin slipped. I showed this bowl to Ed Wade at his home in Sedona, October 13-14, 2013. Ed’s opinion is that it is a Kaolin slip over Sikyatki clay body that also fires quite white. Given the pure white...

2012-24 White-Slipped Polychrome Jar with Parrots

Folk Art Bird Design, White-Slip Ware

This is an especially graceful vase that is both extraordinarily thin and well-formed, with an elegant polychromatic design that beautifully fits the form of the pot. “Graceful, extraordinary, elegant and beautiful”: you get the idea. The design is a variation of a...

2005-02 Early Sikyatki Revival Bowl with Crooks and Clown Faces

White-Slip Ware

This pot has a design that consists of three elements: 1) a black pahos (prayer feather) or sash emerging from a “clown” design, 2) a squared black crook, and 3) a pointed red crook with 12 thin “hair” lines. This three-element design is repeated twice on the pot. The...

2001-01 White-Slipped Vase

White-Slip Ware

White-Slipped Hopi-Tewa pot with abstract exterior design signed “Buffalo Maiden (Mary Ami).” This is not an exceptional pot, but Mary Ami does not seem to have been a prolific potter and her pots rarely come on the market. Mary was born in 1919; her mother (“Dalee”)...

1994-01 Small White-Slipped Jar

White-Slip Ware

White-slipped Hopi vase with Sikyatki revival design by “D.R.,” apparently Donna Robertson (born 1972), with the Navasie family frog plus a tadpole mark. Polychrome with stippled design. Ken Osborne of Many Hands Gallery in Sedona believed “DR” to be the child of...

1992-09 Large White-Slipped Olla with Avian Designs

White-Slip Ware

Hopi jar, white kaolin slip with Sikyatki design by Joy Navasie, “Frog Woman.” Note that the four quadrants of the pot are painted with two designs, one more densely filling the surface than the other does. The pot was given by Navasie to Naomi Fredericks, the wife of...