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    • Appendix A: Hopi Social History and the Transition from Polacca to Sikyatki Revival Style Pottery
    • Appendix B: A Tale of Two Pots: Ancient Sikyatki and bowl 1993-04: The Development of Nampeyo’s Style
    • Appendix C: Appreciations of Nampeyo
    • Appendix D: Ranking “Nampeyo” Pots
    • Appendix E: Nampeyo’s signed pottery, a history & theory
    • Appendix F: Nampeyo’s Design Elements
    • Appendix G: Stephen letter to Keam re Ayer collection
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2015-10 Bowl with distinctive interpretation of “bird hanging from sky band” motif

2015-10 Bowl with distinctive interpretation of “bird hanging from sky band” motif

Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design

A reader who is familiar with this catalog and has developed some confidence in my analysis of Hopi pottery should pause and reconsider. My first catalog entry for this pot labeled it a “Bowl with art-deco interpretation of bird hanging from sky band motif.” Then I...
2007-03 Modern Sikyatki Bowl – Avian Interior with Glyphs – “Chakoptewa.”

2007-03 Modern Sikyatki Bowl – Avian Interior with Glyphs – “Chakoptewa.”

Jeddito Ware

This pot was made (probably in the 1990s) by Anglo artist Michael Hawley, who signs his pottery “Chakoptewa,” Like ancient Sikyatki pottery, this bowl has an even color and a high-pitched ring when struck because it was fired with coal. (For a discussion of...

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