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2022-06 Minature pitcher with creature
This thin pitcher is beautifully-formed and cute. The creature on both sides is complex but questionably fearsome. It's an attractive package. Form: The mouth of the pitcher is triangular with...
2022-05 Early career pot by Nyla Collateta Nampeyo
This pot is unusual because it is formed from yellow “sikyatska” clay that fires red. It carries a black design. The elements of design are typical of the Sikyatki Revival, are...
2022-04 Tile with maiden balancing a pot on her head
Framed in a doorway, this smiling woman balances a very large Hopi pot on her head. Born in 1948, Jean began making pottery when she was about 17 had a long and productive pottery-making career, including...
2022-03 Double-lobed container with maidens and corn iconography
The dimensionality of this pot is complex. Gourd #1 (strap emerging from lip) is 7.125" h X 6.00" w. Gourd #2 (strap emerging from body) is 5.0" h X 5.0" w. The strap is 6.75" long....
2022-02 Plainware wide-shouldered seedpot
This plainware jar is the perfect foil for jar 2020-20, the other recent addition to this collection by Jake Koopee. Whereas jar 2020-20 is packed with design leaving almost no surface on...
2022-01 Duck whistle
I bought my first Hopi-Tewa pot 61 years ago, have been collecting ever since, have a large research library, and have been working on this catalog for 20 years. I consider myself quite an expert when it...
