2001-01 White-Slipped Vase

2001-01 White-Slipped Vase

White-Slipped Hopi-Tewa pot with abstract exterior design signed “Buffalo Maiden (Mary Ami).” This is not an exceptional pot, but Mary Ami does not seem to have been a prolific potter and her pots rarely come on the market. Mary was born in 1919; her mother (“Dalee”)...
2000-07 Canteen with Four-Mountain and Abstract Design

2000-07 Canteen with Four-Mountain and Abstract Design

Hopi-Tewa Canteen, polychromatic paint, with complex loosely jointed abstract feather design centered around a “four-mountain direction” element. The design has two framing lines with break lines; unsigned. Although it is impossible to know who made this canteen, the...
2000-03 Small Bowl with Clown-Face Design

2000-03 Small Bowl with Clown-Face Design

Hopi-Tewa seed pot with “clown” design element, cloud and other standard design elements on the exterior; unsigned; 1930s (?). Like 2002-09: 1) this pot is not symmetrical and sits unevenly on its rounded bottom; and 2) the painting on the pot is fine and uses...
1999-06 Small Butterfly Pot

1999-06 Small Butterfly Pot

Small pot with a design of two butterflies and two flowers, Alma Tahbo. Incompletely marked Alma Tahbo after firing using a green pen. These are folksy, spontaneous butterflies, in contrast to the elegant, controlled figures on the Hisi pot (1999-05). For another pot...