1989-08 Small Low-Shouldered Migration Jar

1989-08 Small Low-Shouldered Migration Jar

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Hopi wide-shoulder jar, bear-claw migration design, Rachel Sahmie (Nampeyo), (born 1956) daughter of Priscilla (see 1991-05 and 1993-03). I think Rachel (and her sisters) are doing some of the finest innovative and yet traditionally rooted work at Hopi. For other pots...
1989-07 Sikyatki Design Butterfly Jar

1989-07 Sikyatki Design Butterfly Jar

Folk Art Butterfly Design

Hopi pot, butterfly/feather design, Alma Chapella Tahbo. Design element has two butterflies and two groups of feathers/geometric designs. Fired May 12, 1981. Alma (born 1915; died 1993) is the daughter of noted Hopi/Tewa potter Grace Chapella (1991-10). Alma’s Father...
1989-06 Seed Jar

1989-06 Seed Jar

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Hopi pot, formed in April 1978 by Rachel Namingha Nampeyo (born 1903; died 1985) and painted by her sister Daisy Hooee Nampeyo (born 1906). The Blairs (1999:197) write that Daisy “…spent much time with her sister Rachel at Polacca. As Rachel’s eyesight began to fail,...
1989-04 Reproduction Black/White Mimbres Bowl

1989-04 Reproduction Black/White Mimbres Bowl

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Mimbres black on white ware (reproduction #229-A, Swart’s Ruin), Laurel & Paul Thornburg. Priest (?) with magic lines to two centipedes. For a discussion of Thornburg’s work making reproductions of prehistoric Arizona Indian pottery, see DeWald...