Folk Art Butterfly Design
Tewa-Hopi yellow-ware vase, butterfly design, 1940 (?), by Grace Chapella (unsigned). According to Dawny Cromwell, Public Education Director of the museum shop, Rex Bollin (who was selling several Hopi pots at the Museum on consignment) said this pot (and the four...
Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
Hopi red-ware bowl, Shalako Kachina on interior by Beth Sakeva (unsigned). 1970s? The Museum was unable to identify the maker since the shop manager kept poor inventory records (inventory # M9505 on bottom). Based on the “style of design,” Rick Dillingham suggests...
Folk Art Butterfly Design
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...
