1986-03 Butterfly Jar

1986-03 Butterfly Jar

There are quite a number of pots with butterfly designs in this collection. (See “Category” listing.) This was purchased first. For a gentle discussion of the meaning of butterflies and flowers in Hopi culture, see Hays-Gilpin (2006:12-25). A niece of Grace Chapella...
1983-02 Low-Shouldered Jar with Geometric Design

1983-02 Low-Shouldered Jar with Geometric Design

Hopi low-shoulder jar, Verna Nahee (Daughter of Ethel Youvella). Verna was born in 1940 and is a teacher at the Polacca Day School. Verna Nahee is not an exceptionally famous potter and this pot is not perfect in the care of painting or design, but it is (perhaps) the...