1991-07 Navajo Jar with Rug-Design Opening

1991-07 Navajo Jar with Rug-Design Opening

Navajo polished, pinion-slip pot with “rug design” opening by Susie A. Williams, daughter of Rose Williams and sister of Alice Cling. (See Hartman (1987:77-80). A similar pot is in the Arizona State Museum collection, Tucson. The contrast in Navaho pottery styles...
1991-01 Man Eagle Jar (not in collection)

1991-01 Man Eagle Jar (not in collection)

Design is a very fine-line reproduction of the Sikyatki “Man-eagle/Thunderbird” figure design. See Fewkes (1973: 59 and 129) for a discussion of this design. Like the original Sikyatki design, the two depictions on this jar by Gloria Kahe shows an abstract bird with a...
1969-07 Navajo Cooking Pot

1969-07 Navajo Cooking Pot

Smoothed with a corncob, filleted rim, pinion coating, with round bottom. According to the shop owner, the pot had been in the shop since at least the late 1940s when she purchased the shop. See Peabody Museum American Archeology & Ethnography (1941:8 for...