Bear Clan | First People Pots

2002-07 Broad-Shouldered Seedpot with Sikyatki Hand Design

Broad-shouldered seed pot with a central design of a hand with dragon flies, geometric designs, migration/water swirls, red and black dots and stippling, finely-patterned fire blushing,, firing burn on the bottom by Dee Setalla. Human hand designs are a common symbol...

2001-03 Jar with Sikyatki Butterfly Design

Folk Art Butterfly Design

This is a version of the old Sikyatki butterfly design made famous by Deanna’s grandmother and used by her mother, Alma Tahbo (1989-07) and her nephew Mark Tahbo (1995-01, 1997-08) and her niece Dianna Tahbo...

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”)...

1999-15 Cylinder with Monochromatic Thunderbird Design

Folk Art Bird Design

Cylinder pot with polychromatic abstract bird design, Laura Tomosie. Laura was the sister of Grace Chapella (1993-01 and 1991-10) but as a potter, she was not as prolific or well known as Grace was. (Rick Dillingham had to borrow a Laura Tomosie pot from Rita Neal to...

1999-06 Small Butterfly Pot

Folk Art Butterfly Design

Small pot with a design of two butterflies and two flowers, Alma Tahbo. Incompletely marked Alma Tahbo after firing using a green pen. These are folksy, spontaneous butterflies, in contrast to the elegant, controlled figures on the Hisi pot (1999-05). For another pot...

2002-07 Broad-Shouldered Seedpot with Sikyatki Hand Design

2001-03 Jar with Sikyatki Butterfly Design

2001-01 White-Slipped Vase

1999-15 Cylinder with Monochromatic Thunderbird Design

1999-06 Small Butterfly Pot

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