2006-06 Blond Clay Utility Bowl Formed In Basket

2006-06 Blond Clay Utility Bowl Formed In Basket

Utility Pots

This bowl has a sharp delineation between the 16-coil basket in which it was started and the coiled sides built straight off the basket. The incurved rim may suggest this was intended to be used as a small piki bowl. The basket-formed bottom is much thicker than the...
2006-04 Smudged Small Kachina Dance Plaque

2006-04 Smudged Small Kachina Dance Plaque

Utility Pots

Although the graceful Sikyatki revival avian design is well painted, it can hardly be seen because of the poor firing that evenly smudged both the front and back of this shallow bowl. The bowl is badly cracked. The crack is more visible from the back than front. The...
2006-03 Two Corn Gourd Pot – Plainware

2006-03 Two Corn Gourd Pot – Plainware

Effigy

Unpainted, highly burnished and kiln-fired with a sloped lip and graceful shape, the pot is of a style unique to “Al Q.” Note that the ears of corn are formed by pushing the wet clay from the inside and then carving the raised external clay. Born in 1938 and raised in...
2006-01 Bowl with Rim Coil and Man-Eagle Design

2006-01 Bowl with Rim Coil and Man-Eagle Design

Man Eagle Design

This bowl has a variation of the “man eagle” (Kwatoko) design floated on the clay body, rim dots and a simple exterior design, circa 1910-1912 (?). The extra rim coil indicates that the pot was formed by Nampeyo. Design elements indicate it was probably painted by her...