A small round seed pot; and a larger conical- toped seed pot (3.25” h X 4.50” w) (which cracked in firing and given by the potter as a gift to “a good...
Santa Clara polychrome redware (with blue), mimbres feather design, “Sunbird,” Timothy Vigil. Timothy’s Mother is Minnie Vigil, daughter of Petra Gutierrez. Tim lives in Espanola and is a draftsman, as can be seen by the careful, symmetrical...
Hopi low-shoulder jar, eagle-feather design, Darlene Nampeyo. Although an accomplished artist (“Best of Show” at the 1987 Museum of Northern Arizona show), Darlene was not experienced at firing large pots. Born in 1956, she spent a couple of weeks in the summer of...
Hopi redware bowl, Nampeyo, circa 1915. This is the first Nampeyo bowl in this collection. The body of this pot is made from yellow “sikyatska” clay that fires red; it is not just sikyatska slipped. Since the yellow clay is difficult to work, this is unusual. The...