2023-10 Cookie jar with folk art birds, side lugs and a lid
Jar is 6.5625” h X 7.5625” wide without lid or handles. The lid is 2.1875” high and 4.25″ wide with a 3.1875” interior ring. Since as early as 1300 CE, when coal-fired Jeddito ware was widely traded, potters at Hopi have been good at marketing. After Thomas...
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...
