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”)...

1996-05 Bowl with Everted Rim & Avian Design

Uncategorized, White-Slip Ware, White-slipped, Nampeyo

Low polychrome bowl with an everted rim and a bird tail design formed and perhaps painted by “Old Lady” Nampeyo. There is a contrary informed opinion that the bowl was painted by her daughter Annie. Note that the “3-brick” element that appears four times...

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...

1993-04 Bowl with Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design

1880s to 1900 Transition Ware, Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design, White-Slip Ware, White-slipped, Nampeyo

Hopi white-slipped bowl with three-color polychrome Sikyatki abstract-avian image, tadpoles, and sky band by Nampeyo, ca.1895-1905 CE.  The first photograph shows Rick Dillingham holding the bowl. Seen siting by itself without any historical or visual context, bowl...

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...

1991-06 Faded White-Slipped Jar (not in collection)

White-Slip Ware

Hopi pot, white kaolin slip with Sikyatki design motif by Maynard and Veronica Navasie of Keams Canyon. (Husband and wife, both born in 1945.) This pot is not old, but the brown and black paint did not adhere to the white slip and have rubbed off. The use of a white...