2004-04 Large Plainware Bowl with Rim

2004-04 Large Plainware Bowl with Rim

The lower quarter of the pot shows some water damage, but unlike utility pots 1995-02, 1998-01, 1998-05, 1999-14, 2003-09, or 2010-17, the pot does not appear to have been used in a Hopi home. Like utility pots 1987-02 and 2002-05, this pot was likely made for sale to...
1999-14 Small Utility Pot – Hotevilla Village

1999-14 Small Utility Pot – Hotevilla Village

Hopi utility ware pot, undecorated with encrustations from near Hotevilla., pre 1950s (?). This older pot shows its use and age has cracked it some, but the texture of the finish and simplicity of its form give it a simple, solid beauty. For other “utility” pots in...
1987-02 Basket Impressed Plainware Dipper

1987-02 Basket Impressed Plainware Dipper

Hopi, basketry impressed bottom plainware dipper made by Vera Pooyouma at Hotevilla. Ms. Pooyouma was born inabout 1884 and was 103 when she made this pot. According to her son, Rex Pooyouma, she was still making a few small pots five years later. A photograph of Mrs....