Hopi – First People Pots

2021-19 Hopi sandal napkin ring

[Double click photos to enlarge.] This sandal is pure kitsch, and like all great kitsch it makes me smile: […]

[Double click photos to enlarge.] There are pots in this collection that are spectacular because of the complexity of […]

After Nampeyo became functionally blind around 1920 and could no longer paint, she began to add more tactile decorations to the […]

This collection is particularly focused on Nampeyo and her descendants, thus the Nampeyo aesthetic is well represented. Jar 2018-12 is an […]

A reader who is familiar with this catalog and has developed some confidence in my analysis of Hopi pottery should […]

This is a thick, solid bowl with a rim that incurves about one-fifth of an inch. Without penetrating to the […]

This pot is exceptionally thin-walled and therefore light, as if formed on a potter’s wheel. A slight variation in form […]

2.188” h X 2.58” w; 2.31” h X 3.17” w; 3.125” h X 2.31” w, respectively Jake (Jr.) stopped using […]

The design on this polychromatic jar has traditional Hopi designs interspersed with four butterfly images. It is signed with the […]

The design on this jar is a somewhat linear variation of an old Nampeyo design reproduced on the cover and […]