2008-02 Small Jar with Avian Design
The design on this jar is a somewhat linear variation of an old Nampeyo design reproduced on the cover and front page of Collins (1974). The Collins images are from a pot owned by Richard Howard and later sold to Martha Streuver. Full photographs of the Nampeyo pot...
2008-01 Polychromatic Seedpot with Batwing Design
The batwing design was used by Nampeyo and became a classic Nampeyo family design. In my opinion, this batwing design was the most elegant design painted by Fannie. [For another batwing jar painted by Fannie, see 2009-14.] Annie was born in 1883; her daughter Rachel...
2007-17 Huge Olla with Eagle Tail Design and Swags
This huge Hopi-Tewa polychrome jar has a decorated rim and an eagle-tail design modified by the addition of elegant red swags between the curvilinear “feathers.” The pot is accurate both in size and in decoration to an “Old Lady” Nampeyo pot given on March 1, 1907 to...
