2022-08 Bowl with everted rim depicting a rabbit hunt
This bowl is of ordinary size with a somewhat unusual everted rim. The three sets of rim ticking are indicative of a pot made during the first quarter of the 20th century. The rabbit stick design is unique. Rabbit sticks were a common accessory of Hopi men, but I...
2021-19 Hopi sandal napkin ring
This sandal is pure kitsch, and like all great kitsch it makes me smile: especially those little toe prints. Obviously it is tourist art and I don’t know if it was peddled with a purpose. I think of it as a napkin ring. Well-formed and carefully painted, it...
2020-19 “Earth in Balance” snake pot
There are pots in this collection that are spectacular because of the complexity of their design (cf 1999-10). Seedjar 2020-19 is spectacular because of its simplicity of form. I also respond to its form because, for me, it recalls Nampeyo, whose name can be...
